RETRACTION: Long Non-Coding RNA CRNDE Sponges miR-384 to Promote Proliferation and Metastasis of Pancreatic Cancer Cells through Upregulating IRS1

G. Wang, J. Pan, L. Zhang, Y. Wei, C. Wang, “Long Non-Coding RNA CRNDE Sponges miR-384 to Promote Proliferation and Metastasis of Pancreatic Cancer Cells through Upregulating IRS1,” Cell Proliferation 50, no. 6 (2017): e12389, https://doi.org/10.1111/cpr.12389

The above article, published online on 21 September 2017 in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com), has been retracted by agreement between the authors, the Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Yunfeng Lin, and John Wiley and Sons Ltd. The retraction has been agreed following a request by the authors to retract the article due to unreliable results and a lack of original data. Further investigation revealed multiple images previously published elsewhere in a different scientific context. Thus, the editors consider the conclusions of this manuscript substantially compromised. The corresponding author Cheng Wang agrees with this decision on behalf of all authors.