Retraction: "MicroRNA-29b-3p prevents Schistosoma japonicum-induced liver fibrosis by targeting COL1A1 and COL3A1," by Ran Tao, Xiang-Xue Fan, Hai-Jing Yu, Guo Ai, Hong-Yue Zhang, Hong-Yan Kong, Qi-Qin Song, Yu Huang, Jia-Quan Huang, Qin Ning, J Cell Biochem. 2018; 3199-3209: The above article, published online on 01 November 2017 in Wiley Online Library (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jcb.26475) has been retracted by agreement between the journal's Editor in Chief, Prof. Dr. Christian Behl, and Wiley Periodicals LLC. The retraction has been agreed following an investigation based on allegations raised by a third party. A detailed investigation revealed that several image elements of the experimental data were published elsewhere in a different scientific context. Thus, the editors consider the conclusions of this article to be invalid.
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