Retraction to: miR-199a-5p suppresses epithelial-mesenchymal-transition in anaplastic thyroid carcinoma cells via targeting Snail signals

Abstract

IOS Press has retracted the following publication from its online content:

[Cancer Biomarkers, 29(3) (2020), 317–326, DOI: 10.3233/CBM-201518]

miR-199a-5p suppresses epithelial- mesenchymal-transition in anaplastic thyroid carcinoma cells via targeting Snail signals

Fengyun Hao ${}^{\text{a}}$ , Ya-Nan Bi ${}^{\text{b}}$ , Lei Wang ${}^{\text{c}}$ , Yubing Wang ${}^{\text{c}}$ , Jilei Ma ${}^{\text{c}}$ , Ping Cui ${}^{\text{c}}$ , Xuhua Li ${}^{\text{c}}$ , Shukai Sun ${}^{\text{d}}$ , Liang Ning ${}^{\text{e}}$ , Yichuan Huang ${}^{\text{a}}$ , Xuelong Jiao ${}^{\text{e,*}}$ and Dong Chen ${}^{\text{e,*}}$

${}^{\text{a}}$ Department of Pathology, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, Shandong, China

${}^{\text{b}}$ Operating Room, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, Shandong, China

${}^{\text{c}}$ Thyroid Surgery, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, Shandong, China

${}^{\text{d}}$ Clinical Lab, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, Shandong, China

${}^{\text{e}}$ General Surgery, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, Shandong, China

The corresponding author contacted the editorial office requesting the article retraction. He informed that some experiments were done by a third-party company who did not provide the raw data. The author claims to have recently repeated the experiments on 8505C cells, without being able to reach the same results. Moreover, there is a possibility of cell contamination resulting in inconsistent experimental results, as cells were not correctly identified prior to the experiments.