Retraction to: Oncogene https://doi.org/10.1038/onc.2008.122, published online 28 April 2008

The Editors-in-Chief have retracted this article. A number of concerns were raised after publication. Specifically:

  • In figure 3A, the panel for Mock U251 and AD-SV U251 appear to partially overlap

  • In figure 3B, the panel for Mock U251 and AD-SV U251 appear to partially overlap

  • In supplementary figure 2A, the first Mock panel and a panel for 50 MOI Ad-MMP-2 with hrVEGF appear to overlap

The Editors have lost confidence in the data and conclusions of this article.

Author Odysseas Kargiotis disagrees with this retraction. The publisher could not obtain a recent email address for authors Meena Gujrati, Sajani S. Lakka, Chandramu Chetty, and Jasti S. Rao. All other authors did not respond to correspondence from the Publisher about this retraction.