The journal retracts the article titled “Mechanisms and therapeutic implications of cell death induction by indole compounds” [1], cited above.
Following publication, concerns were brought to the attention of the Editorial Office regarding the reliability of a number of cited studies contained within this review article [1].
Adhering to our standard procedure, an investigation was conducted that confirmed the presence of a significant number of citations that could not be considered valid in the context of this review. As a result, the Editorial Board have lost confidence in the overall findings and have decided to retract this review article [1] as per MDPI’s retraction policy (https://www.mdpi.com/ethics#_bookmark30).
The authors did not provide a comment on this decision.
Reference
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