RETRACTED: Hepatocellular carcinoma cells-derived exosomal microRNA-378b enhances hepatocellular carcinoma angiogenesis

• DOI: 10.1016/j.lfs.2021.119184
• Publication Date: 2021-02-10T09:35:52Z
• Authors: Wei Chen; Li Huang; Junhua Liang; Yingjian Ye; Shan He; Junli Niu
• Keywords: Adult; Male; 0301 basic medicine; Carcinoma, Hepatocellular; Neovascularization, Pathologic; Liver Neoplasms; Mice, Nude; Apoptosis; Middle Aged; Exosomes; Prognosis; Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic; Mice; MicroRNAs; 03 medical and health sciences; Biomarkers, Tumor; Tumor Cells, Cultured; Animals; Humans; Female; Aged; Cell Proliferation

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy). This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor-in-Chief. Concern was raised about the reliability of the Western blot results in Figs. 2D/G/H, 4C, 5F and 6D, which appear to have the same eyebrow shaped phenotype as many other publications tabulated here (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/149EjFXVxpwkBXYJOnOHb6RhAqT4a2llhj9LM60MBffM/edit#gid=0). The journal requested the corresponding author comment on these concerns and provide the raw data. However the authors were not able to satisfactorily fulfil this request and therefore the Editor-in-Chief decided to retract the article.