RETRACTED: Liposomal valinomycin mediated cellular K+ leak promoting apoptosis of liver cancer cells

• DOI: 10.1016/j.jconrel.2021.07.037
• Publication Date: 2021-07-24T06:46:05Z
• Authors: Qian-Wen Zhang; Mirza Muhammad Fa...; Tian-Qi Zhang; Ting-Ting Zhai; Xiang Qin; Xing-Hua Xia
• Keywords: Nanocarriers

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/about/our-business/policies/article-withdrawal). This article has been retracted at the request of the corresponding author. It has been found that Fig 2B contains manipulated components, and Fig 5A partially overlaps with Fig 6 of a published paper authored by Mirza Muhammad Faran Ashraf Baig, et, al., The effective transfection of a low dose of negatively charged drug-loaded DNA-nanocarriers into cancer cells via scavenger receptors, J. Pharm. Anal. 11 (2021) 174-182, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpha.2020.10.003. The corresponding author indicated that they cannot guarantee the integrity of the images in the manuscript, as well as the conclusions of the paper. As a result, the Editor-in-Chief has decided to retract the paper. The corresponding author deeply regrets the circumstances and apologizes to the scientific community for not having detected this prior to publication.