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Following the publication of this paper, an interested reader drew to the attention of the authors and the Editorial Office that a number of the data panels shown for the cell migration assays in Figs. 1, 3, 4 and 5 contained overlapping data, such that the indicated results purportedly representing different experiments were derived from the same original sources. Furthermore, it was noted that the same scratch‑wound assay data had apparently been included in four of the panels shown in Fig. 5D that were intended to represent different experiments performed under different conditions. After having investigated the matter internally, the Editor of International Journal of Molecular Medicine has decided that this paper should be retracted from the Journal on account of a lack of confidence in the presented data. The authors did not offer a satisfactory response to account for the various issues identified in these figures. The Editor apologizes to the readership for any inconvenience caused. [the original article was published in International Journal of Molecular Medicine 31: 1234‑1242, 2013; DOI: 10.3892/ijmm.2013.1292].