OR Oncology Reports 1021-335X 1791-2431 D.A. Spandidos 10.3892/or.2025.8965 OR-54-4-08965 Retraction [Retracted] MicroRNA-152 inhibits tumor cell growth by directly targeting RTKN in hepatocellular carcinoma ZhouJiejing ZhangYanjun QiYuhong YuDequan ShaoQiuju LiangJun 102025 04082025 54 4 132 Copyright: © 2025 Zhou 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 paper, it was drawn to the Editor's attention by a concerned reader that, regarding the flow cytometric plots shown in Figs. 2D and 4C, several of the panels appeared to show similar groupings of dots, 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 Oncology Reports 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.