Luo Q, Li B, Li G. Onco Targets Ther. 2020;13:2771–2781
We, the Editors and Publisher of OncoTargets and Therapy, have retracted the following article.
Following publication of the article, concerns were raised about the duplication of images from Figure 6 with images from other unrelated articles. Specifically,
Images for Figure 2A and 2C have been duplicated with images for Figure 3G from Bu S, Wang Q, Sun J, et al. Melatonin suppresses chronic restraint stress-mediated metastasis of epithelial ovarian cancer via NE/AKT/β-catenin/SLUG axis. Cell Death Dis. 2020;11:644. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41419-020-02906-y.
Images for Figure 6D have been duplicated with images for Figure 6C from Guo J, Li Y, Duan H, Yuan L. Metformin Suppresses the Proliferation and Promotes the Apoptosis of Colon Cancer Cells Through Inhibiting the Expression of Long Noncoding RNA-UCA1. Onco Targets Ther. 2020;13:4169-4181. https://doi.org/10.2147/OTT.S245091.
The authors did not respond to our queries and were unable to provide an explanation for the duplicated images or provide data for the study. As verifying the validity of published work is core to the integrity of the scholarly record, we are therefore retracting the article and the authors were notified of this.
We have been informed in our decision-making by our editorial policies and COPE guidelines.
The retracted article will remain online to maintain the scholarly record, but it will be digitally watermarked on each page as “Retracted”.