Department of Urology, Tongren Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 200050, China.
J BUON. 2021 Mar-Apr;26(2):646.
The Editors of JBUON issue an Expression of Concern to 'Heptaphylline suppresses the proliferation and migration of human bladder cancer cells via induction of intrinsic apoptosis, autophagy and inhibition of β-catenin signalling pathway', by An Xu, Gang-Gang Yang, Yu Zhang, Shu-Tian Zhao, JBUON 2020;25(1):274-279; PMID: 32277642. 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 的编辑对“Heptaphylline 通过诱导内在凋亡、自噬和抑制 β-catenin 信号通路抑制人膀胱癌细胞的增殖和迁移”一文表示关注，作者为 An Xu、Gang-Gang Yang、Yu Zhang、Shu-Tian Zhao，JBUON 2020；25（1）：274-279；PMID：32277642。在发表上述文章后，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的同时，我们建议读者谨慎解读该文章中的信息。我们感谢读者提出此事。对由此造成的任何不便，我们深表歉意。
