As discussed in the “Notice of Concern” published in this issue, several paragraphs in the above article [Suh Y-H and Checler F (2002) Pharmacol Rev 54:469-526] were republished from an earlier work [Selkoe DJ (2001) Clearing the brain's amyloid cobwebs. Neuron 32:177-180] without attribution. Drs. Suh and Checler have provided the following comments and corrections.
Dr. Suh would like to clearly state that the material used from the Selkoe publication without attribution was an inappropriate and unacceptable action and that Dr. Checler was absolutely not involved in the written part taken from Selkoe's article.
While editing the text and references, citations of Selkoe's Neuron article at some places in the text and the entry for the Neuron article in the references were deleted as a result of the authors' mistakes and carelessness.
Dr. Suh sincerely wants to correct the text with appropriate citations as follows.
On page 477, in the left column, after “a. Insulin-Degrading Enzyme,” quotation marks should enclose the text following the heading until the end of the next paragraph, and the citation “(Selkoe, 2001b)” should be added at the end of the quotation.
On page 477, in the first paragraph of the right column, the text beginning with “The intracerebral injection of synthetic Aβ peptides” to the end of the next paragraph should be in quotation marks.
On page 478, in the left column, after “d. Endothelin-Converting Enzyme,” quotation marks should enclose the text following the heading until the end of the paragraph, and the citation “(Selkoe, 2001b)” should be added at the end of the quotation.
On page 522, the following reference should be added: “Selkoe DJ (2001b) Clearing the brain's amyloid cobwebs. Neuron 32:177-180.”
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