Retraction: “Baicalein retards proliferation and collagen deposition by activating p38MAPK‐JNK via microRNA‐29,” by Xiaoliang Yang, Chunyan Zhang, Jinjie Jiang, Yinghao Li, J Cell Biochem. 2019:15625‐15634. The above article, published online on May 12, 2019, in Wiley Online Library (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jcb.28829), has been retracted by agreement between the journal's Editor in Chief, Prof. Dr. Christian Behl, and Wiley Periodicals LLC.
The retraction has been agreed following an investigation based on allegations raised by a third party. Several flaws and inconsistencies between results presented and experimental methods described were found, the editors consider the conclusions of this article to be invalid. The authors collaborated in the investigation initially, but were not available for a final confirmation of the retraction.