Retraction notice for: “Kaempferol suppresses human gastric cancer SNU-216 cell proliferation, promotes cell autophagy, but has no influence on cell apoptosis” [Braz J Med Biol Res (2019) 52(2): e7843]

Fan Zhanghttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-1084-1183¹ and Cuimei Mahttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-8817-0789²

¹Teaching and Research Department of Diagnostics, Jining Medical University, Jining, China

²Department of Gastroenterology, Affiliated Hospital of Jining Medical University, Jining, China

Correspondence: Cuimei Ma: <[e-mail]>

Retraction for: Braz J Med Biol Res | doi: http://10.1590/1414-431X20187843 | PMID: 30785478 | PMCID: PMC6376319

The Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research received a request from the authors to withdraw this manuscript. Meanwhile, the Editors became aware of a denouncement published by independent journalists from the “For Better Science” website including this paper. This denouncement consisted of potential data falsification and/or inaccuracy of results in western blots and flow cytometry plots.

As per consensus between the Authors and the Editors-in-Chief of the Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research (BJMBR), the article titled “Kaempferol suppresses human gastric cancer SNU-216 cell proliferation, promotes cell autophagy, but has no influence on cell apoptosis” that was published in year 2019, volume 52, issue 2, (Epub Feb 14, 2019) has been retracted.

Publication Dates

• Publication in this collection
  03 Aug 2020
• Date of issue
  2020