RETRACTED: To investigate the effect of osteoporosis and intervertebral disc degeneration on the endplate cartilage injury in rats

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy).This article has been retracted at the request of the editor as the authors have plagiarized part of a paper that had already appeared in European Spine Journal (2014, volume 23, issue 9, Pg: 1848–1855. DOI 10.1007/s00586-014-3324-9). One of the conditions of submission of a paper for publication is that authors declare explicitly that their work is original and has not appeared in a publication elsewhere. Re-use of any data should be appropriately cited. As such this article represents a severe abuse of the scientific publishing system. The scientific community takes a very strong view on this matter and apologies are offered to readers of the journal that this was not detected during the submission process.