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  3. RETRACTED: Liposomal valinomycin mediated cellular K+ leak promoting apoptosis of liver cancer cells

RETRACTED: Liposomal valinomycin mediated cellular K+ leak promoting apoptosis of liver cancer cells

  • J Control Release. 2021 Sep 10:337:317-328. doi: 10.1016/j.jconrel.2021.07.037.
Qian-Wen Zhang 1,  Mirza Muhammad Faran Ashraf Baig 1,  Tian-Qi Zhang 1,  Ting-Ting Zhai 1,  Xiang Qin 1,  Xing-Hua Xia 2
Affiliations

Affiliations

  • 1 State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China.
  • 2 State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China. Electronic address: xhxia@nju.edu.cn.
PMID: 34311027 DOI: 10.1016/j.jconrel.2021.07.037
Abstract

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/about/our-business/policies/article-withdrawal). This article has been retracted at the request of the corresponding author. It has been found that Fig 2B contains manipulated components, and Fig 5A partially overlaps with Fig 6 of a published paper authored by Mirza Muhammad Faran Ashraf Baig, et, al., The effective transfection of a low dose of negatively charged drug-loaded DNA-nanocarriers into Cancer cells via scavenger receptors, J. Pharm. Anal. 11 (2021) 174-182, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpha.2020.10.003. The corresponding author indicated that they cannot guarantee the integrity of the images in the manuscript, as well as the conclusions of the paper. As a result, the Editor-in-Chief has decided to retract the paper. The corresponding author deeply regrets the circumstances and apologizes to the scientific community for not having detected this prior to publication.

Keywords

Apoptosis; Cancer therapy; Ionophore; Potassium ion efflux; Valinomycin, liposomes.

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