ETM Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine 1792-0981 1792-1015 D.A. Spandidos 10.3892/etm.2025.12880 ETM-30-1-12880 Retraction [Retracted] miR-338-3p regulates the proliferation, apoptosis and migration of SW480 cells by targeting MACC1 LuMingliang HuangHua YangJinhui LiJun ZhaoGongfang LiWeihua LiXinhua LiuGuobin WeiLi ShiBaoping ZhaoChunping FuYan 072025 08052025 30 1 130 Copyright: © 2025 Lu 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.

Exp Ther Med 17:2807–2814, 2019; DOI: 10.3892/etm.2019.7260

Following the publication of the above paper, it was drawn to the Editor’s attention by a concerned reader that, regarding the flow cytometric plots shown in Fig. 3 on p. 2811, the ‘Control’ and ‘miR-338-30 inhibitor’ data panels appeared to show similar groupings of dots across the four quadrants, which would not have been anticipated if these experiments had been performed discretely under different experimental conditions, suggesting a fundamental flaw either in the way in which these experiments were performed, or in how the results were outputted.

The Editor of Experimental and Therapeutic 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 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.