Retraction to: MicroRNA-152 inhibits tumor cell growth while inducing apoptosis via the transcriptional repression of cathepsin L in gastrointestinal stromal tumor

IOS Press has retracted the following publication from its online content: [Cancer Biomarkers, 21(3) (2018), 711–722, DOI: 10.3233/CBM-170809]

MicroRNA-152 inhibits tumor cell growth while inducing apoptosis via the transcriptional repression of cathepsin L in gastrointestinal stromal tumor

Hong-Jie Lua,1, Jing Yanb,1, Pei-Ying Jina,1, Gui-Hong Zhenga, Su-Ming Qinc, Dong-Mei Wua, Jun Lua and Yuan-Lin Zhenga

a Key Laboratory for Biotechnology on Medicinal Plants of Jiangsu Province, School of Life Science, Jiangsu, Normal University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China

b Emergency Center, The Affiliated Hospital of Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China

c Department of Oncology, Linyi People’s Hospital, Linyi, Shandong, China

The editorial office was contacted by one of the corresponding authors, Yuan-Lin Zheng, and also by the Academic Committee of Jiangsu Normal University (ACJSNU), requesting the article to be retracted. Below the retraction request by ACJSNU in full:

In July of 2020, we noticed that PubPeer criticized this paper for violating academic integrity. As a result, ACJSNU launched an investigation to invite two independent referees to review the issues raised by PubPeer. Both referees agree with PubPeer’s opinions that the paper displays signs of scientific fraud. In the meantime, ACJSNU requested the major authors of the paper to provide the original experimental records and data for verification. To date, however, the authors have failed to provide the requested documents and data to ACJSNU for examination. Based on the above investigation results, we believe that the paper has violated academic integrity, and thus request to retract this paper.