Retraction to:Cancer Gene Therapy

https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.cgt.7700918, published online 4 Novermber 2005

The authors have retracted this article [1] because Figs. 4, 6 and 7 contain duplicated and modified figures from prior publications [2–5] which have now been retracted.

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    Figure 4 contains duplicated figures from Fig. 1 in ref. [2] and Fig. 2 in ref. [3].

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    Figure 6 contains duplicated and modified figures from Fig. 8 in ref. [3] and Fig. 5 in ref. [4].

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    Figure 7 contains duplicated and modified figures from Fig. 6 in ref. [2], Fig. 9 in ref. [3] and Fig. 7 in ref. [5].

All authors agree to this retraction.

1. Hosseinkhani H, Kushibiki T, Matsumoto K, Nakamura T, Tabata Y. Cancer Gene Therapy. 2006;5:479–89. https://www.nature.com/articles/7700918

2. Hosseinkhani H, Tabata Y. J Controll Release. 2004;1:157–71. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168365904001026

3. Hosseinkhani H, Tabata Y. J Controll Release. 2005;2–3:540–56. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168365905004050

4. Aoyama T, Hosseinkhani H, Yamamoto S, Ogawa O, Tabata Y. J Controll Release. 2002;1–3:345–56. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168365902000299

5. Hosseinkhani H, Aoyama T, Ogawa O, Tabata Y. J Controll Release. 2003;2:297–312. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016836590200425X