Retraction Note: Physcion, a naturally occurring anthraquinone derivative, induces apoptosis and autophagy in human nasopharyngeal carcinoma

Ming-jie Pang; Zhun Yang; Xing-lin Zhang; Zhao-fang Liu; Jun Fan; Hong-ying Zhang

doi:10.1038/s41401-024-01433-2

Retraction Note: Physcion, a naturally occurring anthraquinone derivative, induces apoptosis and autophagy in human nasopharyngeal carcinoma

Ming-jie Pang¹, Zhun Yang¹, Xing-lin Zhang², Zhao-fang Liu¹, Jun Fan¹, Hong-ying Zhang³
¹ Department of Otolaryngology, Qingdao Municipal Hospital, Qingdao 266011, China
² Department of Oncology, Qingdao Municipal Hospital, Qingdao 266011, China
³ Department of Dermatology, Qingdao Municipal Hospital, Qingdao 266011, China
Correspondence to: Zhun Yang: ncaffrey@126.com,
DOI: 10.1038/s41401-024-01433-2

Advance online: 3 December 2024

Abstract

The Editor-in-Chief has retracted this article because of concerns regarding a number of figures presented in this work. These concerns call into question the article’s overall scientific soundness. An investigation conducted after its publication discovered similarities in this paper’s flow cytometry data, and between the assays in Figure 1B and four assays presented in Figure 5C in [1], specifically,

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Retraction Note: Physcion, a naturally occurring anthraquinone derivative, induces apoptosis and autophagy in human nasopharyngeal carcinoma

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