[Expression of Concern] Suppression of SIK1 by miR‑141 in human ovarian cancer cell lines and tissues
Jin-Long Chen & Nai-Fu Liu et al. · 2025-09-05
Following the publication of this paper, for the western blots shown in Fig. 1A, where the expression levels of salt‑inducible kinase 1 were detected in ovarian cancer tissues, it was drawn to the Editor's attention by a concerned reader that the β‑actin loading controls for patients 4, 6 and 7 were strikingly similar in appearance. Moreover, several of the protein bands in this figure were strikingly similar to data which subsequently appeared in another paper written by different authors at different research institutes that was published in the journal