OL Oncology Letters 1792-1074 1792-1082 D.A. Spandidos 10.3892/ol.2024.14812 OL-29-2-14812 Retraction [Retracted] MicroRNA‑133a‑3p inhibits cell proliferation, migration and invasion in colorectal cancer by targeting AQP1 KongBin ZhaoShipeng KangXianwu WangBo 02 2025 20 11 2024 29 2 66 Copyright: © 2024 Kong 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.

Oncol Lett 22: 649, 2021; DOI: 10.3892/ol.2021.12910

Following the publication of this paper, it was drawn to the Editor's attention by a concerned reader that certain of the Transwell cell invasion and migration assay data shown in Figs. 2D and 5C respectively were strikingly similar to data that had already been published in different form in a pair of other articles written by different authors at a different research institutes.

Owing to the fact that the contentious data in the above article had already been published prior to its submission to Oncology Letters, the Editor has decided that this paper should be retracted from the Journal. The authors were asked for an explanation to account for these concerns, but the Editorial Office did not receive a reply. The Editor apologizes to the readership for any inconvenience caused.