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Retraction Note to: Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Arch Pharmacol
The Editor in Chief retracted this article (Wang et al. 2019) because of significant concerns regarding a number of Figures presented in this work, which question the integrity of the data. After publication, overlap was detected with figures in articles submitted and published within a close timeframe.
Figure 1D contains images that appear to be the same or nearly the same as those in Fig. 1D of a different article ((Lin 2019), retracted)
Figure 5F appears to contain two very similar images (case 1—low and case 2 – low)
Figure 8D appears to be very similar to Fig. 3D in a different article ((Shen 2019), retracted)
Figure 8E contains a number of images that appear to have been published previously in a number of unrelated publications, for instance (Liu and Yu 2018) (retracted), (Zou 2018; Du et al. 2019; Wang et al. 2018) Wang et al (2018) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pharep.2018.04.006.
The authors were unable to provide raw data and stated that the figures were obtained through a commercial lab hired to perform some of the experiments for this study.
Author Hongling Liu agreed to retraction but has not explicitly stated if they agree to this retraction notice. The remaining authors could not be contacted by the journal.
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Wang, L., Wang, J., Zhao, H. et al. Retraction Note to: Soyasapogenol B exhibits anti-growth and anti-metastatic activities in clear cell renal cell carcinoma. Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Arch Pharmacol 394, 569 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00210-020-02020-y
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