The article ‘Octreotide Alleviates Autophagy by Up-Regulation of MicroRNA-101 in In- testinal Epithelial Cell Line Caco-2’ ,[Cellular Physiology and Biochemistry (2018) 49 (4): 1352–1363. https://doi.org/10.1159/000493413] by Yuling Li, Su Wang, Xingjuan Gao, Ying Zhao, Yongwei Li, Bin Yang, Naili Zhang and Lina Ma has been retracted by the current and former Publisher and the Editor.
Following publication, concerns were raised regarding the integrity of the data. The authors did not respond to initial requests to comment and provide the raw data within the given timeframe despite multiple attempts of contact. The matter has been raised to the corresponding author’s institution who did not respond to our request for an investigation. The corresponding author subsequently responded to previous correspondence and requested the article’s retraction. The corresponding author stated that they “found some mistakes in this article concerning the western blots results in the year 2022” and that “the original data has been lost partially and therefore cannot provide all data”.
As the concerns raised could not be addressed or resolved, the reliability of the findings presented in the article cannot be guaranteed and the article is being retracted.
The corresponding author, on behalf of all authors, agrees with this retraction.