Retracted: A Role for PPARγ in the Regulation of Cytokines in Immune Cells and Cancer

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The paper titled “A Role for PPARγ in the Regulation of Cytokines in Immune Cells and Cancer” [1], published in PPAR Research, has been retracted as it is found to contain a substantial amount of materials from published papers.

The three most original source papers are (1) X.

Y.

Yang, L.

H.

Wang, K.

Mihalic, et al., “Interleukin (IL)-4 indirectly suppresses IL-2 production by human T lymphocytes via peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ activated by macrophage-derived 12/15-lipoxygenase ligands,” Journal of Biological Chemistry, vol.

277, no.

6, pp.

3973–3978, 2002; (2) L.

Széles, D.

Töröcsik, and L.

Nagy, “PPARγ in immunity and inflammation: cell types and diseases,” Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, vol.

1771, no.

8, pp.

1014–1030, 2007; (3) L.

H.

Wang, X.

Y.

Yang, X.

Zhang, et al., “Transcriptional inactivation of STAT3 by PPARγ suppresses IL-6-responsive multiple myeloma cells,” Immunity, vol.

20, no.

2, pp.

205–218, 2004.