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Retraction Note: RNAi targeting CXCR4 inhibits proliferation and invasion of esophageal carcinoma cells
Tao Wang1,2, Yanfang Mi3, Linping Pian4
1Department of Hemato-tumor, The First Affiliated Hospital of Henan College, University of TCM, Zhengzhou, People's Republic of China.
Diagnostic Pathology
|May 22, 2019
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The Editor-in-Chief has retracted this article [1] because Fig. 3 shows overlap with Fig. 6 in [2], Fig. 2b in [3] and Fig. 6a in [4]. An investigation by Zhengzhou University has confirmed that these figures overlap. The data reported in this article are therefore unreliable.
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