IJMM International Journal of Molecular Medicine 1107-3756 1791-244X D.A. Spandidos 10.3892/ijmm.2021.5021 ijmm-48-04-05021 Retraction Suppression of endoplasmic reticulum stress-induced invasion and migration of breast cancer cells through the downregulation of heparanase LiYang LiuHao HuangYing Ying PuLong Jian ZhangXu Dong JiangChen Chen JiangZhi Wen 10 2021 05 08 2021 48 4 188 Copyright: © Li et al. 2021 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.

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Following the publication of this paper, an interested reader drew to the attention of the authors and the Editorial Office that a number of the data panels shown for the cell migration assays in Figs. 1, 3, 4 and 5 contained overlapping data, such that the indicated results purportedly representing different experiments were derived from the same original sources. Furthermore, it was noted that the same scratch-wound assay data had apparently been included in four of the panels shown in Fig. 5D that were intended to represent different experiments performed under different conditions.

After having investigated the matter internally, the Editor of International Journal of Molecular Medicine has decided that this paper should be retracted from the Journal on account of a lack of confidence in the presented data. The authors did not offer a satisfactory response to account for the various issues identified in these figures. The Editor apologizes to the readership for any inconvenience caused.