TY - JOUR AB - Following the publication of the above paper, the authors contacted the Editorial Office to request that the article be retracted on account of the presented results being unreliable; essentially, the authors did not repeat their experiments the requisite number of times, and they were unable to identify in subsequent experiments any increase in the apoptotic rate of the alveolar epithelial cells as had been reported. The Editor of Molecular Medicine Reports has agreed that this paper should be retracted from the Journal. The Editor and the authors apologize to the readership for any inconvenience caused. [the original article was published in Molecular Medicine Reports 16: 9601‑9606, 2017; DOI: 10.3892/mmr.2017.7782] AD - Department of Pediatrics, The First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin 130021, P.R. China AU - Shi,Shan AU - Liu,Xiaolei AU - Li,Haibo DA - 2021/11/01 DO - 10.3892/mmr.2021.12456 IS - 5 JO - Mol Med Rep KW - alveolar epithelial cell Mycoplasma pneumonia caspase-3 apoptosis PY - 2021 SN - 1791-2997 1791-3004 SP - 816 ST - [Retracted] Downregulation of caspase‑3 alleviates Mycoplasma pneumoniae‑induced apoptosis in alveolar epithelial cells T2 - Molecular Medicine Reports TI - [Retracted] Downregulation of caspase‑3 alleviates Mycoplasma pneumoniae‑induced apoptosis in alveolar epithelial cells UR - https://doi.org/10.3892/mmr.2021.12456 VL - 24 ER -