Retraction:

Chuanzong Zhao¹, Qian Wang², Ben Wang¹, Qi Sun¹, Zhaobin He¹, Jianguo Hong¹, Florian Kuehn³, Enyu Liu¹ and Zongli Zhang¹

¹Department of General Surgery, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan, P.R. China
²Department of Cardiology, Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong University, Jinan, P.R. China
³Department of General, Thoracic, Vascular and Transplantation Surgery, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany

Published: August 05, 2024

Copyright: © 2024 Zhao et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

This article has been retracted: In this paper, the Stat5 blots in Figure 2A contain an internal duplication. In addition, several western blot panels in Figure 7B are duplicates of those found in Figure 4B and 4C but representing different proteins, conditions and cell types, in an earlier published paper [1]. All the panels in Figure 4A and 4C, representing transwell assay data, are duplicates of those found in Figure 1 of an earlier published paper and describing completely different conditions and cell types [2]. Therefore, the Editorial decision has been made to retract this paper. All authors agreed with the decision.

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Original article: Oncotarget. 2017; 8:111922–111930. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.22952