Retraction Note: Matrine promotes liver cancer cell apoptosis by inhibiting mitophagy and PINK1/Parkin pathways

Retraction Note: Cell Stress and Chaperones (2018) 23:1295–1309

10.1007/s12192-018-0937-7

The Editor-in-Chief has retracted this article (Wei et al. 2018) because of significant concerns regarding a number of Figures presented in this work, that question the integrity of the data. After publication, overlap was detected with figures in articles submitted and published within a close time frame. Specifically, elements of Fig. 2 appear to be identical to Fig. 2 in an article published by the same authors (Cao et al. 2019). Figure 1 and 2 appear similar to Figs. 1 and 2 respectively in an article by different authors (Jieensinue et al. 2018). Furthermore, it appears one image from Fig. 2a (Matrine 1 nM) has been flipped and re-used in Fig. 6 J as Tan IIA 5uM in Jieensinue et al. (2018). The same image appears to have been also used in Fig. 6A in Cao et al. (2019).

The authors stated that a number of figures were inserted by mistake, namely Figs. 1c and d, Fig. 2a, f,g,h,k and l.

The Editor-in-Chief therefore no longer has confidence in the integrity of the data in this article.

The authors have not explicitly stated whether they agree to this retraction notice.