Retraction Note: Cancer Cell International (2015) 15:78
10.1186/s12935-015-0230-0
The Editors-in-Chief have retracted this article. After publication, concerns were raised regarding highly similar images between this article and several other unrelated articles that were submitted and published earlier or within a similar time frame [1–7]. The Editors-in-Chief therefore no longer have confidence in the presented data.
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