Retraction:

Zi-Feng Zhang^1,*, Yong-Jian Wang^1,*, Shao-Hua Fan¹, Shi-Xin Du², Xue-Dong Li², Dong-Mei Wu¹, Jun Lu¹ and Yuan-Lin Zheng¹

¹Key Laboratory for Biotechnology on Medicinal Plants of Jiangsu Province, School of Life Science, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou 221116, P.R. China
²Department of Orthopedics, The Third Affiliated Hospital, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518002, P.R. China
^*Co-first authors

Published: September 06, 2022

Copyright: © 2022 Zhang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

This article has been retracted: In July of 2020, the Academic Committee of Jiangsu Normal University launched an investigation of this paper and requested that the major authors provide the original experimental records and data for verification. To date, however, the authors have failed to provide the requested documents. The committee has concluded that this paper violates academic integrity. In light of this, the paper is retracted.

Original article: Oncotarget. 2017; 8:101345–101361. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.21167.