RETRACTED: Aberrant frequency of IL-10-producing b cells and its association with treg and MDSC cells in non small cell lung carcinoma patients
J Liu, H Wang, Q Yu, S Zheng, Y Jiang, Y Liu, G Yuan… - 2016 - Elsevier
The Editor-in-Chief has retracted this article due to serious problems with copied and re-
labeled images in several figures. Specifically, the problematic items are the HC and Stage I
samples in figure 1D (IL-10/CD19) and figure 2B (CD127/CD25), in which the flow dot plots
outside of the boxes are identical. This strongly suggests that the data was manipulated. The
authors were unable to provide the raw data files to prove otherwise. This makes the overall
conclusions of the paper unreliable and violates our ethical publishing policies. The …
labeled images in several figures. Specifically, the problematic items are the HC and Stage I
samples in figure 1D (IL-10/CD19) and figure 2B (CD127/CD25), in which the flow dot plots
outside of the boxes are identical. This strongly suggests that the data was manipulated. The
authors were unable to provide the raw data files to prove otherwise. This makes the overall
conclusions of the paper unreliable and violates our ethical publishing policies. The …
