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Retraction Note: Curcumin synergizes with 5-fluorouracil by impairing AMPK/ULK1-dependent autophagy, AKT activity and enhancing apoptosis in colon cancer cells with tumor growth inhibition in xenograft mice

Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research volume 41, Article number: 197 (2022) Cite this article

The Original Article was published on 22 December 2017

Retraction Note: J Exp Clin Cancer Res 36, 190 (2017)

https://doi.org/10.1186/s13046-017-0661-7

The Editor-in-Chief is retracting this article. Concerns have been raised about the welfare of the mice used in this study. The Editor-in-Chief has not been able to obtain clarification on whether the tumour volume and the humane endpoints in the experiments described were approved by the institutional animal ethics committee. None of the authors has responded to correspondence from the Publisher about this retraction.

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  1. Key Laboratory of Brain Functional Genomics (East China Normal University), Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 200062, China

    Pan Zhang, Ze-Lin Lai, Xi-Min Zhu & Zheng Zhao

  2. Department of Clinical Laboratory, Shanghai First Maternity and Infant Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 201204, China

    Hui-Fen Chen, Wen-Qin Sun & Jun Zhang

  3. Department of Clinical Laboratory, Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center Affiliated to Fudan University, Shanghai, 201508, China

    Min Zhang & Jun Zhang

  4. Department of Thoracic Surgery, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200040, China

    An Wang & Xiao-Feng Chen

  5. INSERM-UGA U1209, CNRS UMR5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, F-38700, La Tronche, France

    Tao Jia

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Zhang, P., Lai, ZL., Chen, HF. et al. Retraction Note: Curcumin synergizes with 5-fluorouracil by impairing AMPK/ULK1-dependent autophagy, AKT activity and enhancing apoptosis in colon cancer cells with tumor growth inhibition in xenograft mice. J Exp Clin Cancer Res 41, 197 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13046-022-02409-y

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