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Retraction: Oncogenic extracellular HSP70 disrupts the gap-junctional coupling between capillary cells

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Dominique Thuringer1, Kevin Berthenet1, Laurent Cronier2, Gaetan Jego1,3, Eric Solary4 and Carmen Garrido1,3,5

1 INSERM, U866, Faculty of Medecine, Dijon, France

2 CNRS ERL7368, STIM Lab, University of Poitiers, Poitiers, France

3 University of Burgundy, Dijon, France

4 INSERM, U1009, Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France

5 CGFL, BP77980 21000 Dijon, France

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Dominique Thuringer, email: [email protected]

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Copyright: © 2025 Thuringer 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This article has been retracted: This decision follows an investigation by Oncotarget journal regarding the concerns raised by the readers on PubPeer. Our image forensics analysis revealed multiple issues of internal and external duplications and overlaps:

Although the authors provided the Editorial Office with corrected Figures 2C, 6A, 6B, and 7D, they failed to provide uncropped original blots and cell images with date stamps.

Taking into consideration the number of necessary corrections and image manipulations, the Editorial decision has been made to retract this paper. The authors have been informed of this decision.

Original article: Oncotarget. 2015; 6:10267–10283. 10267-10283. https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.3522

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3. Thuringer D, Jego G, Wettstein G, Terrier O, Cronier L, Yousfi N, Hébrard S, Bouchot A, Hazoumé A, Joly AL, Gleave M, Rosa-Calatrava M, Solary E, Garrido C. Extracellular HSP27 mediates angiogenesis through Toll-like receptor 3. FASEB J. 2013; 27:4169–83. https://doi.org/10.1096/fj.12-226977. [PubMed]. Retraction in: FASEB J. 2025; 39:e70367. DOI: 10.1096/fsb2.70367 PMID: 39921432.