RETRACTED: Down-regulation of lncRNA ADAMTS9-AS2 contributes to gastric cancer development via activation of PI3K/Akt pathway.

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/about/our-business/policies/article-withdrawal). This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor-in-Chief. Panels from Figure 2C appear similar to panels from Figure 2D of the article that Zhang M., Gao C., Yang Y., Li G., Dong J., Ai Y., Ma Q. and Li W. have published in Cellular Physiology and Biochemistry 42 (2017) 211-221 https://doi.org/10.1159/000477314. Regions of panels ‘Control’ and ‘si-ADAMTS9-AS2’ from Figure 3B appear similar to regions of panels ‘Control’ and ‘si-ADAMTS9-AS2’ from Figure 6C. Regions of panel ‘si-ADAMTS9-AS2’ from Figure 3D appear similar to regions of panel ‘pc-CSTB+si-CSTB’ from Figure 3B of the article that Jian Zhang, ZhenFeng Shi, JinXing Huang and XiaoGuang Zou have published in Oncology Research 24 (2016) 487–494 http://dx.doi.org/10.3727/096504016X14685034103752. Panel ‘Control’ from Figure 4B appears similar to panel ‘pc-CSTB+si-CSTB’ from Figure 4B of the article published by Oncology Research 24 (2016) 487. Regions of panels from Figure 6B appear similar to each other, as well as to regions of panels from Figure 2 of the article that Xiantao Sun, Yang Bai, Chao Yang, Shengyun Hu, Zhili Hou and Guixian Wang have published in Artificial Cells, Nanomedicine, and Biotechnology 47 (2019) 2536-2544 https://doi.org/10.1080/21691401.2019.1621328. Regions of panels from Figure 6D appear similar to each other, as well as to regions of ‘Hypoxia’ panel from Figure 1B of the article that Fei Kong, Juan Jin, Xiaolin Lv, Yubo Han, Xue Liang, Yanyu Gao and Xinglin Duan have published in Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy 109 (2019) 716-725 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopha.2018.10.079. Although this article was published earlier than some of the other articles, the Editor decided to retract this article given concerns about the reliability of the data. Also, the corresponding author has not responded to the journal request to comment on the complaints and to provide the raw data of the results presented by the article.