Abstract
Subsequently to the publication of the article, the authors have realized that the bar chart that accompanied Fig. 4C, indicating the quantification of the western blotting data in this figure part, was published in the absence of either of the axes labels. The authors apologize for this oversight, and a corrected version of Fig. 4, which incorporates the missing labels, is shown opposite. The omission of these axes labels did not have an impact on the overall meaning of the paper. The authors regret that an incomplete version of Fig. 4 appeared in the printed version of the paper, and apologize to the readership for any inconvenience caused. [the original article was published in the Oncology Reports 40: 425‑433, 2018; DOI: 10.3892/or.2018.6432].