Following publication, the authors contacted the Editorial Office to request the retraction of the cited article, stating that cell lines used in the article were contaminated by Mycoplasma. It was confirmed by the authors when they tried to repeat their experiments unsuccessfully. The findings and conclusions reported in the article are no longer supported by the data. An investigation was conducted in accordance with Frontiers’ policies that confirmed this; therefore, the article has been retracted.
This retraction was approved by the Chief Editors of Frontiers in Pharmacology and the Chief Executive Editor of Frontiers. The authors agree to this retraction.
Summary
Keywords
Tumor-associated macrophages, Quercetin, hsa_circ_0006990-miR-132-3p/miR-342-3p network, Autophagy, colorectal cancer
Citation
Frontiers Editorial Office (2023) Retraction: Quercetin inhibits tumorigenesis of colorectal cancer through downregulation of hsa_circ_0006990. Front. Pharmacol. 14:1252183. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2023.1252183
Received
03 July 2023
Accepted
03 July 2023
Published
06 July 2023
Approved by
Angelo A. Izzo, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Volume
14 - 2023
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