School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 401331, People's Republic of China.
J BUON. 2021 Jan-Feb;26(1):297.
The Editors of JBUON issue an Expression of Concern to 'Anticancer activity of safranal against colon carcinoma is due to induction of apoptosis and G2/M cell cycle arrest mediated by suppression of mTOR/PI3K/Akt pathway', by Yibing Zhang, Yong Zhao, Jianyou Guo, Haifeng Cui, Sha Liu, JBUON 2018;23(3):574-578; PMID:30003721. Following the publication of the above article, readers drew to our attention that part of the data was possibly unreliable. We sent emails to the authors with a request to provide the raw data to prove the originality, but received no reply. Therefore, as we continue to work through the issues raised, we advise readers to interpret the information presented in the article with due caution. We thank the readers for bringing this matter to our attention. We apologize for any inconvenience it may cause.
JBUON 杂志编辑就“水芹烯通过抑制 mTOR/PI3K/Akt 通路诱导细胞凋亡和 G2/M 细胞周期阻滞发挥抗结肠癌活性”一文表达关注，作者：Yibing Zhang, Yong Zhao, Jianyou Guo, Haifeng Cui, Sha Liu，JBUON 2018;23(3):574-578; PMID:30003721。文章发表后，读者提请我们注意，部分数据可能不可靠。我们向作者发送电子邮件，要求提供原始数据以证明其原创性，但未收到回复。因此，在我们继续解决所提出的问题时，我们建议读者谨慎解读文章中呈现的信息。感谢读者对此事的关注。我们对由此造成的任何不便表示歉意。
