Oncol Rep 40: [Related article:] 1917–1926, 2018; DOI:
10.3892/or.2018.6597
Subsequently to the publication of the above paper,
the authors drew to the attention of the Editorial Office that they
made a couple of errors in terms of the data assembly in Figs. 2
and 4 in their paper; specifically, the Transwell assay data shown
for the ‘miR-320a+/FoxM1+’ panel in Fig. 5D on p. 1923 also
appeared as the ‘ACTN/NC’ data panel in Fig. 4E on the same page
(Fig. 4E contained the erroneously duplicated panel). In addition,
data featured in Fig. 2D of the above paper were strikingly similar
to data that appeared in Fig. 6e of the following paper, published
subsequently to this article, written by different authors
(although a Dr Shiyue Zhao worked in the molecular biology
laboratory of Harbin Medical University from 2017 to 2018, and the
research collaboration was conducted with Dr Chenlong Li's research
group): Li C, Zheng H, Hou W, Bao H, Xiong J, Che W, Gu Y, Sun H
and Liang P: Long non-coding RNA linc00645 promotes TGF-β-induced
epithelial-mesenchymal transition by regulating miR-205-3p-ZEB1
axis in glioma. Cell Death Dis 10: 17, 2019. Finally, after having
conducted an independent investigation of the data in this paper,
the Editorial Office noted that one of the Petri dish images in
Fig. 2C was also strikingly similar to data that appeared in Fig.
2H of the abovementioned article in the journal Cell Death &
Disease.
After having considered the authors' request for
corrigendum, in view of the problems that were identified with the
data, the Editor of Oncology Reports has decided that, owing
to a lack of confidence in the presented data, the paper should
instead be retracted from the journal. After having informed the
authors of this decision, they accepted the decision to retract
this paper. The Editor apologizes to the readership for any
inconvenience caused.
