Retraction Note to: Acetylshikonin inhibits in vitro and in vivo tumorigenesis in cisplatin-resistant oral cancer cells by inducing autophagy, programmed cell death and targeting m-TOR/PI3K/Akt signalling pathway.

Retraction of "Acetylshikonin inhibits in vitro and in vivo tumorigenesis in cisplatin-resistant oral cancer cells by inducing autophagy, programmed cell death and targeting m-TOR/PI3K/Akt signalling pathway", by Peng Wang, Weiyue Gao, Yibin Wang, Jun Wang. JBUON 2019;24(5):2062-2067; PMID: 31786876 Following the publication of the above article, readers drew to our attention that part of the data was unreliable. We requested the authors to provide the raw data to prove the originality. Then the corresponding author contacted with our journal and stated below: Our group tried to repeat the results presented in this paper, but found that some data was not able to be reproducible. The authors then asked to retract this article. At the same time, our journal's investigation into this article also showed that part of the results in this article can not be supported by the data. Given above, we decided to retract this article. All the authors were informed of the retraction. We thank the readers for bringing this matter to our attention. We apologize for any inconvenience it may cause.