The article, “Death deflected: IL-15 inhibits TNF-␣-mediated apoptosis in fibroblasts by TRAF2 recruitment to the IL-15R␣ chain,” by Silvia Bulfone-Paus, Elena Bulanova, Thomas Pohl, Vadim Budagian, Horst Du¨rkop, Rene´ Ru¨ckert, Ulrich Kunzendorf, Ralf Paus, and Hans Krause, published in the September 1999 issue of The FASEB Journal (13, 1575– 85) has been retracted at the request of Silvia Bulfone-Paus, Thomas Pohl, Horst Du¨rkop, Rene´ Ru¨ckert, Ulrich Kunzendorf, Ralf Paus, and Hans Krause. The journal also received correspondence from Peter Zabel, Managing Director, Research Center Borstel, indicating that the corresponding author’s institution is aware of the retraction. The retraction was requested because of figure irregularities.
