RETRACTED: Baicalein inhibits proliferation and migration of bladder cancer cell line T24 by down-regulation of microRNA-106.

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This article has been retracted please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (https//www.elsevier.com/about/our-business/policies/article-withdrawal). This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor-in-Chief. A panel from Figure 2A appears similar to a panel from Figure 6C of the article published by Qiu Hong Rui, Jian Bo Ma, Yu Feng Liao, Jin Hua Dai and Zhen Yu Cai in the Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research 52(4) (2019) e7728 http//dx.doi.org/10.1590/1414-431X20197728. Also, panels from Figure 4F appear similar to panels from Figure 6C of the article published by the Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research 52(4) (2019) e7728 and Figure 2B of the article published by Jin Zhou, Hao Li, Na Li, Xiangpan Li, Huibo Zhang, Qibin Song and Min Peng in the International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Pathology 10(8) (2017) 8211­8221 https//www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6965428/. The journal also requested a response from the corresponding author on the post-publication comments of Dr Elisabeth Bik https//scienceintegritydigest.com/2020/02/21/the-tadpole-paper-mill/ but did not receive a response. Although this article was published earlier than the article from the Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research, the Editor decided to retract this article given the concerns on the reliability of the data. Also, one of the conditions of submission of a paper for publication is that authors declare explicitly that their work is original. As such this article represents an abuse of the scientific publishing system. The scientific community takes a very strong view on this matter and apologies are offered to readers of the journal that this was not detected during the submission process.