RETRACTION: Rotenone Restrains the Proliferation, Motility and Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition of Colon Cancer Cells and the Tumourigenesis in Nude Mice via PI3K/AKT Pathway.

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W. Xue, S. Men, and R. Liu, "Rotenone Restrains the Proliferation, Motility and Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition of Colon Cancer Cells and the Tumourigenesis in Nude Mice via PI3K/AKT Pathway," Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology 47, no. 8 (2020): 1484-1494. https://doi.org/10.1111/1440-1681.13320. The above article, published online on 13 April 2020, in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com), has been retracted by agreement between the journal Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Yang Yang; and John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd. A third party informed the publisher that images in Figures3D, 6A, 6D and 7A were duplicated from other articles by different author groups, some of which were used in a different scientific context. The report also detailed duplicated images within this article between Figures2A, 4C, and 5C. Additional investigation by the journal also detected duplications of images between figures1H and 2E and between Figures4E and 6F. The authors did not respond to an inquiry by the publisher regarding these concerns. The retraction has been agreed to because the evidence of image duplication across different articles, each of which describe different experimental conditions, as well as image duplication within the article, fundamentally compromises the editors' confidence in the conclusions presented. The authors did not respond to our notice regarding the retraction.