This article has been retracted: Aging has completed its investigation of this paper. We found overlap between some of the transwell assay images used for Figures 3E and 5E and data published by other authors. We also found that images of exosomes isolated from the medium of NEEC and EC18 cells in Figure 4B duplicate exosome images from different cells published in unrelated papers. The authors reply that they “are unable to provide satisfactory data in relation to these figures and were unable to support the integrity of the research.” Consequently, all authors agreed that the article should be retracted.
. 2022 Oct 31;14(20):8581. doi: 10.18632/aging.204366
Retraction: Exosomal long non-coding RNA UCA1 functions as growth inhibitor in esophageal cancer
Zijiang Zhu
1,*,✉, Huilin Wang
1,*, Yao Pang
1, Hongxia Hu
1, Hongyi Zhang
1, Wenhao Wang
1
Zijiang Zhu
1Department of Thoracic Surgery, Gansu Provincial Hospital, Lanzhou, Gansu, China
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Huilin Wang
1Department of Thoracic Surgery, Gansu Provincial Hospital, Lanzhou, Gansu, China
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Yao Pang
1Department of Thoracic Surgery, Gansu Provincial Hospital, Lanzhou, Gansu, China
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Hongxia Hu
1Department of Thoracic Surgery, Gansu Provincial Hospital, Lanzhou, Gansu, China
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Hongyi Zhang
1Department of Thoracic Surgery, Gansu Provincial Hospital, Lanzhou, Gansu, China
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Wenhao Wang
1Department of Thoracic Surgery, Gansu Provincial Hospital, Lanzhou, Gansu, China
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1Department of Thoracic Surgery, Gansu Provincial Hospital, Lanzhou, Gansu, China
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Equal contribution
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Correspondence to: Zijiang Zhu; email: zhuzijiang2008@163.com, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8389-2670
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Corresponding author.
Received 2022 Aug 29; Accepted 2022 Oct 28; Collection date 2022 Oct 31.
Keywords: esophageal cancer, exosome, lncRNA UCA1, progression, biomarker
Copyright: © 2022 Zhu et al.
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
PMCID: PMC9648800 PMID: 38232302
This retracts the article "Exosomal long non-coding RNA UCA1 functions as growth inhibitor in esophageal cancer" in volume 12 on page 20523.