BioMed Research International has retracted the article titled “Apoptosis and Molecular Targeting Therapy in Cancer” [1]. The article was found to contain a substantial amount of material from previously published articles, including the following sources:
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(ii) DB Longley, PG Johnston. “Molecular mechanisms of drug resistance”, The Journal of Pathology, 2005. 10.1002/path.1706. [3] (Not Cited)
(iii) Suparna Mazumder, Dragos Plesca and Alexandru Almasan. “A Jekyll and Hyde Role of Cyclin E in the Genotoxic Stress Response: Switching from Cell Cycle Control to Apoptosis Regulation”, Cell Cycle, 06/15/2007. 10.4161/cc.6.12.4432. [4] (Not Cited)
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