Retraction Volume 17, Issue 12 pp 3005
Retraction of: Esophageal carcinoma cell-excreted exosomal uc.189 promotes lymphatic metastasis
- 1 Department of Pathology, The Affiliated Hospital of Yangzhou University, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, PR China
- 2 Institute of Translational Medicine, Medical College, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225001, PR China
- 3 Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine for Prevention and Treatment of Senile Diseases, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225001, PR China
Received: October 27, 2025 Accepted: December 16, 2025 Published: December 31, 2025
https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.206351How to Cite
Copyright: © 2025 Ding 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This article has been retracted: The journal’s investigation was initiated following a retraction request from the corresponding author Chenghai Wang. The stated reason for this request was “misquoted a fund (Chinese National Nature Science Foundation, No. 81471547).” Our investigation by the Scientific Integrity office identified further concerns: Image forensics analysis found image manipulations, including blurring and splicing, in the Western blot (WB) images presented in Figure 6D. The WB images used in Figure 4D were reused from Figure 6D of a paper published in Aging in 2020 [1], which shares one co-author, Chenghai Wang.
The Scientific Integrity office attempted to contact the authors regarding these concerns but did not receive a reply. The editorial decision was made to retract the article, and the authors were notified of this decision.
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