This article has been retracted: Aging has completed its investigation of this paper. We found overlap between some of the transwell assay images used in Figures 5F, 6F, 6H, 7G and data published by other authors at earlier date [1]. We also found that images of wound healing assay presented in Figure 7D, F duplicate images published in unrelated papers [2,3], and identical images of Western blots in Figure 6K are presented in two unrelated papers [2,4]. The authors informed Aging that all these issues cannot be resolved and agreed to retract the article.
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