Heptazoline exerts antiproliferative effects on human melanoma cells by inducing apoptosis, cell cycle arrest and...

The Editors of JBUON issue an Expression of Concern to 'Heptazoline exerts antiproliferative effects on human melanoma cells by inducing apoptosis, cell cycle arrest and targeting MAPK signalling pathway', by Wei Zhou, Ling Zhou, Min Wang, Zeming Liu, Danyang Chen, Liang Guo; JBUON 2020;25(1):479-484; PMID: 32277672. Following the publication of the above article, readers drew to our attention that part of the data was possibly unreliable. We sent emails to the authors with a request to provide the raw data to prove the originality, but received no reply. Therefore, as we continue to work through the issues raised, we advise readers to interpret the information presented in the article with due caution. We thank the readers for bringing this matter to our attention. We apologize for any inconvenience it may cause.