Int J Oncol 50: [Related article:] 85-92, 2017; DOI:
10.3892/ijo.2016.3797
Following the publication of the above paper, an
interested reader has drawn the Editor's attention to the fact that
the tubulin control blots featured in Fig. 3 on p. 88 were
strikingly similar to the control blots subsequently featured in a
figure in another paper that was published by the same research
group in the journal Oncotarget, where the experimental
conditions were reported to be different. A subsequent
investigation of the data in this paper undertaken by the Editorial
Office revealed that various of the western blots included in Figs.
2A and B, 3E and F, and 4C and D appeared to have been duplicated
within and/or between these figure parts; moreover, various of the
data in these figure parts were remarkably similar to data which
appeared (either previously or subsequently relative to the
publication date of this article) in other papers written by
different authors at different research institutes.
Given that the contentious data mentioned above have
apparently re-appeared in a range of other publications, the Editor
of International Journal of Oncology has decided that this
paper should be retracted from the Journal. The authors were asked
for an explanation to account for these concerns, but the Editorial
Office did not receive a reply. The Editor apologizes to the
readership for any inconvenience caused.
