In the article titled “Curcumin Analogue CA15 Exhibits Anticancer Effects on HEp-2 Cells via Targeting NF-κB” [1], the cell line HEp-2 used in the study had been reported to be contaminated by HeLa, a cervical cancer cell line. Therefore, the study can only prove that the compound CA15 has antitumor effects, not antihuman laryngeal carcinoma.
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