Oncol Rep 35: [Related article:] 2328-2338, 2016; DOI:
10.3892/or.2016.4610
Following the publication of the above paper, an
interested reader drew to our attention that a number of apparent
anomalies existed with the data presented in the above paper;
specifically, there appeared to be strikingly similar and
replicated patternings of the cells within the cellular images
featured in Figs. 4A-D and 5A-D (affecting all the figure parts).
Secondly, Fig. 4 in the above study appeared to have been a
reproduction of Fig. 3 from following paper featuring different
authors, albeit Fig. 4 appeared in greyscale, and not in colour, in
the above paper [Wan G, Tao J-G, Wang G-D, Liu. S-P, Zhao H-X and
Liang Q-D: In vitro antitumor activity of the ethyl acetate
extract of Potentilla chinensis in osteosarcoma cancer
cells. Mol Med Rep 14: 3634-3640, 2016].
Following an internal enquiry, the Editor of
Oncology Reports was able to verify the claims made by the
interested reader; therefore, in view of the number of potential
anomalies that have been identified and owing to a lack of overall
confidence in the presented data, the Editorial Board have decided
to retract the above paper from the publication. The Journal were
also contacted independently by the authors, who wished to retract
the paper on account of not being able to reproduce the results
shown in Fig.. 2. The Editor apologizes to the readership of the
Journal for any inconvenience caused.
