We, the Editors and Publisher of the journal Cell Cycle, have retracted the following article:
Jingjing Liu, Liming Cao, Jie Meng, Yuanyuan Li, Pengbo Deng, Pinhua Pan, Chengping Hu, and Huaping Yang. The fibrotic microenvironment promotes the metastatic seeding of tumor cells into the lungs via mediating the ZEB1-AS1/miR-200b-3p/ZEB1 signaling. Cell Cycle. 2020;19(20):2701–2719. doi: 10.1080/15384101.2020.1826236
Since publication, significant concerns have been raised about the integrity of the data and reported results in the article. When approached for an explanation, the authors did not provide their original data or any necessary supporting information. As verifying the validity of published work is core to the integrity of the scholarly record, we are therefore retracting the article. The corresponding author listed in this publication has been informed.
We have been informed in our decision-making by our policy on publishing ethics and integrity and the COPE guidelines on retractions.
The retracted article will remain online to maintain the scholarly record, but it will be digitally watermarked on each page as ‘Retracted’.