Retraction Note to: Cell Death & Disease https://doi.org/10.1038/s41419-019-1960-z, published online 26 September 2019
The Editors-in-Chief have retracted this article. An investigation conducted after its publication discovered that the p21 band shown in Figure 5D appears to overlap with a portion of the c-Myc band in Figure 4B in [1] after a horizontal flip. The authors informed the Journal that the source data for this research is no longer available. The Editors-in-Chief therefore no longer have confidence in the integrity of the research presented in this article.
The authors did not explicitly state whether they agree or disagree with this retraction.
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Xie, F, Yuan, Y, Xie, L, Ran, P, Xiang, X, Huang, Q, et al. miRNA-320a inhibits tumor proliferation and invasion by targeting c-Myc in human hepatocellular carcinoma. OncoTargets and therapy. 2017;10:885–94
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Lu, Z., Li, X., Xu, Y. et al. Retraction Note: microRNA-17 functions as an oncogene by downregulating Smad3 expression in hepatocellular carcinoma. Cell Death Dis 17, 401 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41419-026-08829-4
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