The published article titled “ABCB5–ZEB1 Axis Promotes Invasion and Metastasis in Breast Cancer Cells” has been retracted from Oncology Research, Vol. 25, No. 3, 2017, pp. 305–316.
DOI: 10.3727/096504016X14734149559061
URL: https://www.techscience.com/or/v25n3/56810
Following the publication, concerns have been raised about a number of figures in this article. An unexpected area of similarity was identified in terms of the cellular data, where the results from differently performed experiments were intended to have been shown, although the areas immediately surrounding this area featured comparatively different distributions of cells. In addition, the western blots in this article were presented with atypical, unusually shaped and possibly anomalous protein bands in many cases.
The authors were contacted and invited to comment on the concerns raised and to provide the original, unmodified figures, but did not respond. The Editors-in-Chief therefore no longer have confidence in the integrity of the data in this article and decided to retract this article.
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