Retraction to: MicroRNA-1246 inhibits cell invasion and epithelial mesenchymal transition process by targeting CXCR4 in lung cancer cells

Abstract

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

[Cancer Biomarkers, 21(2) (2018), 251–260, DOI: 10.3233/CBM-170317]

MicroRNA-1246 inhibits cell invasion and epithelial mesenchymal transition process by targeting CXCR4 in lung cancer cells

Xiaohui Xu, Lei Cao, Ye Zhang, Hongjian Lian, Zhiwei Sun and Yushang Cui

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing 100730, China

This paper belongs to a set of papers allegedly linked to a paper mill, as described in [1]. The editorial office contacted the authors to clarify the allegations, but to date there was no response; therefore the article has been retracted.

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