RETRACTION: X. Yang, Q. Zhang, H. Lu, C. Wang, and L. Xia, “Suppression of lncRNA MALAT1 Reduces LPS‐ or IL‐17A‐Induced Inflammatory Response in Human Middle Ear Epithelial Cells via the NF‐κB Signaling Pathway,” BioMed Research International 2021, no. 1 (2021): 8844119, 10.1155/2021/8844119.
The above article, published online on 7 January 2021 in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com), has been retracted by agreement between the journal Editor‐in‐Chief and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. The retraction has been agreed due to figure concerns identified within the western blots presented in Figures 1 and 3.
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In Figure 1E, the β‐actin appears to be duplicated with the GAPDH panel in Figure 1E of [1].
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In Figure 3D, the Nucleus p65 panel, the IL‐17A and IL‐17A + sh‐NC bands appear to be duplicated with the E‐cadherin panel in Figure 5F of [2]. There also appears to be an undeclared splice in this figure.
As a result of the investigation, the data and conclusions of this article are considered unreliable.
The authors did not respond when notified of the retraction.
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