Molecular Medicine Reports Molecular Medicine Reports 1791-2997 1791-3004 D.A. Spandidos 10.3892/mmr.2025.13549 MMR-32-1-13549 Retraction [Retracted] Triptolide inhibits migration and proliferation of fibroblasts from ileocolonic anastomosis of patients with Crohn’s disease via regulating the miR‑16‑1/HSP70 pathway ChenMin WangJin-Min WangDong WuRong HouHong-Wei 07 2025 28 04 2025 32 1 184 Copyright: © 2025 Chen et al. 2025 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 authors' attention that, regarding the western blot data shown in Fig. 1, the Col-I protein bands were strikingly similar to the bands that were featured in the third and fourth lanes of Fig. 5G to represent the α-SMA data. In addition, the protein bands shown for the Col-I and α-SMA experiments in the first and second lanes of the respective gels in Fig. 5G also appeared to be strikingly similar.

Upon examining these data independently in the Editorial Office, the Editor of Molecular Medicine Reports has determined that this article should be retracted from the Journal on the basis of a lack of confidence in the presented data. Upon contacting the authors, they accepted the decision to retract this article. The Editor apologizes to the readership of the Journal for any inconvenience caused.