Int J Mol Med 29: [Related article:] 373-379, 2012; DOI:
10.3892/ijmm.2011.852
Following the publication of this paper, it was
drawn to the Editor's attention by a concerned reader that the
fluorescence microscopy data shown in Fig. 6A and B were strikingly
similar to data appearing in different form in Fig. 7 in a
previously published paper [Lv Z-D, Na D, Liu F-N, Du Z-M, Sun Z,
Li Z, Ma X-Y, Wang Z-N and Xu H-M: Induction of gastric cancer cell
adhesion through transforming growth factor-beta1-mediated
peritoneal fibrosis. J Exp Clin Cancer Res 29: 139, 2010], which
featured some of the same authors, although the data were shown to
portray results obtained under different experimental conditions.
Furthermore, the data in Fig. 7A for the 'TGF-β1' and the 'TGF-β1 +
siRNAcon' experiments contained an overlapping section, such that
these data appeared to have been derived from the same original
source, even though they were intended to show the results from
differently performed experiments.
Owing to the fact that the contentious data in the
above article had already been published prior to its submission to
International Journal of Molecular Medicine, and due to a
lack of overall confidence in the presented data, the Editor has
decided that this paper should be retracted from the Journal. After
having been in contact with the authors, they accepted the decision
to retract the paper. The Editor apologizes to the readership for
any inconvenience caused.
