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Retraction: Netrin-1 promotes gastric cancer cell proliferation and invasion via the receptor neogenin through PI3K/AKT signaling pathway

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Oncotarget. 2025; 16:878-878. https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.28804

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Kai Yin1,2,*, Linjun Wang1,*, Xuan Zhang1,3,*, Zhongyuan He1,*, Yiwen Xia1, Jianghao Xu1, Song Wei1, Bowen Li1, Zheng Li1, Guangli Sun1, Qing Li1, Hao Xu1, Zekuan Xu1,4

1 Department of General Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
2 Department of General Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, China
3 Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Wuhu No.2 People ‘s Hospital, Wuhu, Anhui, China
4 Collaborative Innovation Center For Cancer Personalized Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
* These authors contributed equally to this work

Published: December 31, 2025

Copyright: © 2025 Yin 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This article has been retracted: Oncotarget has completed its investigation of this paper. Image forensic analysis confirmed that Figures 2, 3, 4, and 6 contain overlapping images. Additionally, two years after the publication of the Oncotarget paper, one of the panels in Figure 2F was duplicated in Figure 3A of reference [1], where Xu Zekuan was a corresponding author. The National Natural Science Foundation of China Supervision Committee also confirmed misconduct and concluded that Xu Zekuan is responsible for the issues identified. The data provided by the authors was insufficient to resolve the concerns. Accordingly, the Editorial Decision has been made to retract the paper. The authors have been notified about the decision.


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1. Yin K, Wang L, Xia Y, Dang S, Zhang X, He Z, Xu J, Shang M, Xu Z. Netrin-1 promotes cell neural invasion in gastric cancer via its receptor neogenin. J Cancer. 2019; 10:3197–207. https://doi.org/10.7150/jca.30230.. [PubMed].

Original article: Oncotarget. 2017; 8:51177–51189. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.17750.


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