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Retraction
This article [1] was published in error by PLOS after the authors requested withdrawal. Therefore, PLOS One has withdrawn this article [1] and removed the article contents from the journal website. The publisher apologizes for the error.
1 Oct 2025: The PLOS One Editors (2025) Withdrawal: Astragaloside IV combined with quercetin attenuates silica-induced pulmonary fibrosis by promoting autophagy and suppressing pyroptosis. PLOS ONE 20(10): e0333459. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0333459 View retraction
Citation: Zhu W, Zhao N, Ma Y, Zhang W, Ma J, Cao M, et al. (2025) Astragaloside IV combined with quercetin attenuates silica-induced pulmonary fibrosis by promoting autophagy and suppressing pyroptosis. PLoS One 20(6): e0327255. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0327255
Editor: Jordan Robin Yaron, Arizona State University, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Received: September 28, 2024; Accepted: June 7, 2025; Published: June 25, 2025
Copyright: © 2025 Zhu et al. This retracted article was originally published as an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. While the article contents were removed from PLOS One online at the time of retraction, the Creative Commons Attribution License continues to apply to any existing copies of the article.
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Funding: This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China [grant number 2022YFC2503202]; the innovation Project of Shandong Academy of Medical Science, and Academic promotion program of Shandong First Medical University [grant number 2019QL001]; the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [grant numbers 81602893, 81872575], Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province [grant numbers ZR2015YL049 ZR2021MH218 and ZR2022MH184]; the Traditional Chinese medicine science and technology project of Shandong Province[grant number M-2023238]. There was no additional external funding received for this study.There was no additional external funding received for this study.
Competing interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.