RETRACTED: MicroRNA-1247 inhibits lipopolysaccharides-induced acute pneumonia in A549 cells via targeting CC chemokine ligand 16

Abstract

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy). This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor-in-Chief. Panel “Control” from Figure 3C appears similar to panel “si-PVT1” from Figure 2A of the article that Wei Huang, Xiuwen Lan, Xueting Li, Dawei Wang, Yinghao Sun, Qian Wang, Hong Gao and Kaijiang Yu have published in the International Immunopharmacology 47 (2017) 134–140 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intimp.2017.03.030, panel “Control” from Figure 2D of the article that Xiaodi Liu, Chengying Hong, Shipin Wu, Shiling Song, Zhi Yang, Lin Cao, Tongwei Song and Ying Yang have published in the Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 120 (2019) 11331–11341 https://doi.org/10.1002/jcb.28409 and panel “LPS+sh-NEAT1” from Figure 2C of the article that Chen Yi, Qiu Jialing, Chen Bin, Lin Youping, Chen Yulan, Xie Guojin, Qiu Junming, Tong Huasheng and Jiang Dongxin have published in the International Immunopharmacology 59 (2018) 252–260 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intimp.2018.03.023. Moreover, panel “Control” from Figure 5C appears similar to panel “Control” from Figure 2A of the article from the International Immunopharmacology 47 (2017) 134. Given the comments of Dr Elisabeth Bik https://scienceintegritydigest.com/2020/02/21/the-tadpole-paper-mill/ regarding this article, the journal requested the corresponding author to provide the raw data. However, the author was not able to fulfil this request.

Keywords: CCL16; Infantile pneumonia; JNK and NF-κB pathways; miR-1247.