Retraction of: Scientific Reports 10.1038/s41598-018-26496-0, published online 25 May 2018
The Editors have retracted this Article. After the publication of this Article it was brought to the Editors' attention that some of the data appear to overlap with data in other articles with different authors, where they are attributed to different experiments. Specifically:
In Figure 2A images of scratch wound assays in BxPC-3 and Panc-1 cells in control and I-BET762 groups appear to overlap with data described in1,2.
In Figure 2D images of colony formation assays in BxPC-3 and Panc-1 cells in control and I-BET762 groups appear to overlap with data described in3–6.
In Figure 3A the images of sphere formation assays appear to overlap with those described in7.
The Editors reached out to the Authors to request raw data. The Authors were unable to provide the data and the concerns remain unresolved. The Editors therefore no longer have confidence in the results presented in this Article. All Authors agree to this retraction.
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