RETRACTED: Maroni et al. The Autophagic Process Occurs in Human Bone Metastasis and Implicates Molecular Mechanisms Differently Affected by Rab5a in the Early and Late Stages. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2016, 17, 443
Paola Maroni, Paola Bendinelli, Massimo Resnati, Emanuela Matteucci, Enrico Milan, Maria Alfonsina Desiderio · 2026
Read RETRACTED: Maroni et al. The Autophagic Process Occurs in Human Bone Metastasis and Implicates Molecular Mechanisms Differently Affected by Rab5a in the Early and Late Stages. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2016, 17, 443 by Paola Maroni, Paola Bendinelli, Massimo Resnati, Emanuela Matteucci, Enrico Milan, Maria Alfonsina Desiderio (2026) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/PMC13411776.txt.
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Paola Maroni and co-authors' 2016 study of cell self-eating in human bone metastasis is retracted by the journal in 2026. The paper had claimed the autophagy process unfolds in bone spread of cancer, with one protein playing different roles at early and late stages. Doubts about its figures reached the editorial office and triggered a formal investigation.
Editors confirmed that parts of a key figure duplicated elements from a figure in another paper by a similar author group, despite showing different experimental conditions. The board states it lost confidence in the findings and withdrew the paper under publisher policy, with the editor-in-chief approving. Two authors agreed to the retraction when informed; the rest gave no comment.
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| CREATOR | Paola Maroni, Paola Bendinelli, Massimo Resnati, Emanuela Matteucci, Enrico Milan, Maria Alfonsina Desiderio |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 1546 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |