Molecular Medicine Reports Molecular Medicine Reports 1791-2997 1791-3004 D.A. Spandidos 10.3892/mmr.2026.13906 MMR-34-1-13906 Retraction [Retracted] Homeobox B9 facilitates hypertrophic scar formation via activating the mitogen-activated protein kinase signaling pathway XieQun LiuDandan YuMosheng WuXiaowei ZhaoYueqiang HuQiang WangQi 072026 18052026 34 1 196 Copyright: © 2026 Xie et al. 2026 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 the western blot data shown in Fig. 5A and D had already appeared previously in an article written by different authors at different research institutes, which was published in the journal Molecular and Cellular Biology. Upon performing an independent analysis of the data in this paper, it also came to light that, concerning the histological images shown in Fig. 1, the ‘FN/HS’ data panel had also been previously published in an article written by different authors in the journal Archives of Plastic Surgery.

Owing to the fact that the abovementioned data in this article had already been published prior to its submission to Molecular Medicine Reports, 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 satisfactory reply. The Editor apologizes to the readership for any inconvenience caused.