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Retraction Note: IL-1RA inhibits esophageal carcinogenesis and lymphangiogenesis via downregulating VEGF-C and MMP9
Zhimin Shen, Peipei Zhang, Weiguang Zhang, Fei Luo, Hui Xu, Shuchen Chen, Mingqiang Kang

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TopicsIL-33, ST2, and ILC Pathways · Esophageal Cancer Research and Treatment · Biomarkers in Disease Mechanisms
Functional & Integrative Genomics (2023) 23:164
10.1007/s10142-023-01049-5
The Editor-in-Chief and the publisher have retracted this article. The article was submitted to be part of a guest-edited issue. An investigation by the publisher found a number of articles, including this one, with a number of concerns, including but not limited to compromised editorial handling and peer review process, inappropriate or irrelevant references or not being in scope of the journal or guest-edited issue. Based on the investigation’s findings, the Editor-in-Chief therefore no longer has confidence in the results and conclusions of this article.
The author, Mingqiang Kang, has stated that all authors disagree with this retraction
