Molecular Medicine Reports Molecular Medicine Reports 1791-2997 1791-3004 D.A. Spandidos 10.3892/mmr.2025.13651 MMR-32-5-13651 Retraction [Retracted] Hepatitis B core antigen regulates dendritic cell proliferation and apoptosis through regulation of PKC/NF-κB signaling pathway LiuLan HuangYanxin ZhangKaili SongShupeng LiShuangxing LiYongguo LanYinghua 112025 12082025 32 5 286 Copyright: © Liu 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.

Mol Med Rep 18: 5726–5732, 2018; DOI: 10.3892/mmr.2018.9604

Following the publication of this paper, it was drawn to the Editor's attention by a concerned reader that the four plots shown for the flow cytometric (FCM) data in Fig. 2 on p. 5728 contained overlapping areas, where differently performed experiments were intended to have been represented. Moreover, there were also indications that certain of the data were potentially overlapping with Figs. 4 and 5 (the other pair of figures containing FCM data in this paper).

Owing to the fact that the abovementioned data bore notable similarities comparing across different quadrants among these three figures, the Editor of Molecular Medicine Reports has decided that this paper should be retracted from the Journal on the grounds of an overall 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.