The journal retracts the article, “Potential protective role of melatonin in benign mammary cells reprogrammed by extracellular vesicles from malignant cells” [1].
Following publication, concerns were brought to the attention of the publisher regarding duplicate figures between this article [1] and three other publications [2,3,4], produced by different authorship groups.
Adhering to our complaint procedure, an investigation was conducted by the Editorial Office and Editorial Board that confirmed duplications between panels in Figure 4 in [1]; Figure 3A,B in [2]; Figure 5E in [3]; and Figure 7A in [4], representing different experimental conditions. While the authors cooperated with the Editorial Office during the investigation, they were unable to satisfactorily explain the overlap of figures nor provide appropriate raw material for Editorial Board evaluation. Consequently, the Editorial Board has lost confidence in the reliability of the findings and decided to retract this publication [1], as per MDPI’s retraction policy (https://www.mdpi.com/ethics#_bookmark30).
This retraction was approved by the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Biomedicines.
The authors agreed to this retraction.
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