Front. Immunol. Frontiers in Immunology Front. Immunol. 1664-3224 Frontiers Media S.A. 10.3389/fimmu.2026.1786161 Correction Correction: Interventional effects of mesenchymal stem cells on epithelial-mesenchymal transition in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma and underlying mechanisms: a systematic review and meta-analysis of in vitro studies WangYouhu 1 2 Formal analysis Visualization Writing – original draft Data curation Methodology Conceptualization LiuYanli 3 4 5 Investigation Writing – review & editing Data curation Methodology DuWanxian 3 4 5 Data curation Writing – review & editing Investigation XueJing 3 4 5 Validation Writing – review & editing Data curation RuanJianhua 3 4 5 Investigation Validation Writing – review & editing YuJuan 1 2 Investigation Writing – review & editing Resources MaBin 3 4 5 * Conceptualization Writing – review & editing Project administration Methodology Supervision LiXun 2 6 7 * Writing – review & editing Conceptualization Supervision Methodology Project administration Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, The First Hospital of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China The First School of Clinical Medicine, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China Evidence-Based Medicine Center, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China Research Center for Medical Device Regulatory Science, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China Industry Center for Evidence-Based Research and Evaluation Standards in Medical Devices of Gansu Province, Lanzhou, China Department of General Surgery, The First Hospital of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China Key Laboratory Biotherapy and Regenerative Medicine of Gansu Province, Lanzhou, China Correspondence: Bin Ma, mab@lzu.edu.cn; Xun Li, lxdr21@126.com 19 01 2026 2026 17 1786161 12 01 2026 13 01 2026 12 01 2026 Copyright © 2026 Wang, Liu, Du, Xue, Ruan, Yu, Ma and Li. 2026 Wang, Liu, Du, Xue, Ruan, Yu, Ma and Li https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. A Correction on Interventional effects of mesenchymal stem cells on epithelial–mesenchymal transition in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma and underlying mechanisms: a systematic review and meta-analysis of in vitro studies By Wang Y, Liu Y, Du W, Xue J, Ruan J, Yu J, Ma B and Li X (2026) Front. Immunol. 16:1705852. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2025.1705852 epithelial-mesenchymal transition head and neck squamous cell carcinoma mesenchymal stem cells meta-analysis tumor microenvironment section-at-acceptance Cancer Immunity and Immunotherapy

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