OR Oncology Reports 1021-335X 1791-2431 D.A. Spandidos 10.3892/or.2022.8254 OR-0-0-08254 Retraction Function of miR-152 as tumor suppressor in oral squamous cell carcinoma cells by targeting c-MET LiMinghe LiZhihong WangXue WangYumei ZhaoCong WangLei 03 2022 04 01 2022 47 3 43 Copyright: © Li et al. 2022 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.

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Following the publication of this paper, it was drawn to the Editors’ attention by a concerned reader that certain of the representative tumor images shown in Fig. 6B were strikingly similar to images appearing in different form in another article by different authors. Subsequently to the comments raised by the reader, the authors themselves contacted the Editorial Office to request a retraction of the above paper on account of not being to reproduce the results shown in the in vivo experiments.

Owing to the fact that the contentious data in the above article had already been published elsewhere prior to its submission to Oncology Reports, and in line with the authors’ own request, the Editor has decided that this paper should be retracted from the Journal. The Editor apologizes to the readership for any inconvenience caused.