Molecular Vision 2025; 31:204-204 <http://www.molvis.org/molvis/v31/204>
Received 29 October 2024 | Accepted 05 November 2024 | Published 15 June 2025

In the article titled “Ablation of C3 modulates macrophage reactivity in the outer retina during photo-oxidative damage” by Haihan Jiao, Jan M. Provis, Riccardo Natoli, Matt Rutar (Molecular Vision 26:679-690), the following corrections were made:

Images of Figure 3 panel A and Figure 4 panels A, E, and G that appear in the present article were re-used from the authors’ previous publications (Jiao H, Rutar M, Fernando N, Yednock T, Sankaranarayanan S, Aggio-Bruce R, Provis J, Natoli R. Subretinal macrophages produce classical complement activator C1q leading to the progression of focal retinal degeneration. Mol Neurodegener. 2018 Aug 20;13(1):45. PMID: 33088172) without acknowledgment or explanation. Permission has now been obtained.

The authors state that, while the images were duplicated, their significance was presented in a unique context in this Molecular Vision publication. In the earlier paper (2018) the images were shown to demonstrate the phagocytic phenotype of subretinal macrophages. In this Molecular Vision article, the authors compared subretinal macrophage activity in WT retinas (reused images) with retinas from C3^−/− animals, following photo-oxidative damage. That comparison is unique to this current Molecular Vision article.

The re-use of the previously-published images in the present article was in a different context from the prior publication, but that does not make re-use without permission, acknowledgment, or explanation acceptable. The authors sincerely apologize to the scientific public for this error, which reflects a level of attention to detail that is below professional expectations.

The corrected version of the article includes these additions:

1. An additional reference:

[42] Jiao H, Rutar M, Fernando N, Yednock T, Sankaranarayanan S, Aggio-Bruce R, Provis J, Natoli R. Subretinal macrophages produce classical complement activator C1q leading to the progression of focal retinal degeneration. Mol Neurodegener 2018; 13(1):45 [PMID: 33088172]

2. Modified captions: A sentence has been added to the end of each of these legends.

Figure 3. ... ... “A is adapted from [42]; Republished with permission.”

Figure 4: ... ... “A, E, and G are adapted from [42]; Republished with permission.”