Retraction: Structural characterization and anticancer potency of centipede oligopeptides in human chondrosarcoma cancer: inducing apoptosis

Abstract

Retraction of ‘Structural characterization and anticancer potency of centipede oligopeptides in human chondrosarcoma cancer: inducing apoptosis’ by Yuebing Ren et al., RSC Adv., 2020, 10, 29780–29788, https://doi.org/10.1039/D0RA04811A.

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The Royal Society of Chemistry hereby wholly retracts this RSC Advances article due to significant portions of text overlap with a number of sources throughout the article, in particular ref. 13 and 14 of the original article and ref. 1–6 below, which were not cited.

The authors were informed about the retraction of this article but did not respond.

Signed: Laura Fisher, Executive Editor, RSC Advances

Date: 22nd August 2023

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