OR Oncology Reports 1021-335X 1791-2431 D.A. Spandidos 10.3892/or.2024.8732 OR-51-6-08732 Retraction [Retracted] Chronic oxymatrine treatment induces resistance and epithelial‑mesenchymal transition through targeting the long non‑coding RNA MALAT1 in colorectal cancer cells XiongYibai WangJun ZhuHuirong LiuLingshuang JiangYi 06 2024 09 04 2024 51 6 73 Copyright: © 2024 Xiong et al. 2024 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 the above article, a concerned reader drew to the Editor's attention that certain of the cell migration and invasion assay data featured in Figs. 2B, 5C, 6B and C were strikingly similar to data appearing in different form in other articles written by different authors at different research institutes that had either already been submitted elsewhere prior to the submission of this paper to Oncology Reports, or were under consideration for publication at around the same time (one of which has been retracted).

In view of the fact that certain of these data had already apparently been submitted for publication prior to the submission of this article to Oncology Reports, the Editor has decided that this paper should be retracted from the Journal. After having been in contact with the authors, they agreed with the decision to retract the paper. The Editor apologizes to the readership for any inconvenience caused.