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Retraction
Retraction of: MicroRNA-346 facilitates cell growth and metastasis, and suppresses cell apoptosis in human non-small cell lung cancer by regulation of XPC/ERK/Snail/E-cadherin pathway
Sun Cheng-Cao 1
Li Shu-Jun 1 2
Yuan Zhan-Peng 3
Li De-Jia 1
1 Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, School of Public Health, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430071, P. R. China
2 Wuhan Hospital for the Prevention and Treatment of Occupational Diseases, Wuhan 430071, P. R. China
3 Department of Toxicology, School of Public Health, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430071, P. R. China
Correspondence to: De-Jia Li; email: lodjlwhu@sina.com
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30 8 2024
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Copyright: © 2024 Sun et al.
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 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.
Keywords:

microRNA-346 (miR-346)
XPC
non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)
oncogenesis
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pmcThis article has been retracted: Aging has completed its investigation of this paper. We found multiple external duplications of the panels showing colony formation assays in Figure 5C. The authors reused previously published data from colony formation assay published in a different study [1] and again used some of the images in a later published article [2]. In addition, there are duplications of plate images from papers from unrelated labs [3, 4]. The corresponding author asked to withdraw/retract this paper and mentioned that: “the first author mislabeled the samples and I lost the confidence in the reliability of the conclusion.” No responses were received from the other authors. Because the validity of the reported results and conclusions is under the question, the Aging Editors retracted this article.
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