The Editorial Office has been made aware of potential issues surrounding the scientific validity of this paper, hence has issued an expression of concern to notify readers whilst the Editorial Office investigates. The Figure 3C Inhibitor NC panel seems to appear in other papers by unrelated authors, specifically as the Figure 2D Si-Tcf3#3 image from He et al. 2019 (doi: 10.1042/bsr20180369) and as the 143B/sh-VAV3+inhibitor panel of Figure 6E from Xiao et al. 2020 (doi: 10.18632/aging.103762).
. 2023 Feb 9;43(2):BSR-2017-0837_EOC. doi: 10.1042/BSR-2017-0837_EOC
Expression of Concern: Up-regulated microRNA-500a enhances hepatocarcinoma metastasis by repressing PTEN expression
Collection date 2023 Feb 27.
Keywords: AKT, Hepatocarcinoma, Metastasis, Mir-500a, PTEN
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PMCID: PMC9912106 PMID: 36756751
This is an expression of concern about the following article: "Up-regulated miR-500a enhances hepatocarcinoma metastasis by repressing PTEN expression" in volume 37, BSR20170837.