Retraction of: Scientific Reports https://doi.org/10.1038/srep22793, published online 15 March 2016


The Editors have retracted this Article.


After publication, concerns were raised that three tumour images in Figure 4E appear to be identical:

  • PANC-1-null far-left image;

  • PANC-1-miR-454 middle image;

  • PANC-1-miR-454 far-right image.


In addition, panel CD68/NT in Figure 1A overlaps with panel CD45/PDL-Day 0 of Figure 3A in1.


Ding-Fang Cai has not responded to any correspondence from the Editors about this retraction. The Editors were unable to obtain current email addresses for Yue Fan, Li-Li Xu, Chen-Ye Shi and Dan-Song Wang. Wei Wei has stated that they were not aware of the submission of this article.