Abstract
Subsequently to the publication of the above paper, the authors contacted the Editorial Office to explain that they had found several mistakes in Figs. 1B, 2B, 6B and 7B in their paper. The PCR results shown in Fig. 1B, the flow cytometric results in Figs. 2B and 6B, and the immunohistochemistry results in Fig. 7B were inadvertently chosen incorrectly when these images were selected from the pool of raw data. However, the authors retained access to their original data, and were able to re-assemble the data in these figures as they had intended. Consequently, the corrected versions of Figs. 1, 2, 6 and 7, containing the replacement data for Figs. 1B, 2B, 6B, and 7B, are shown below and on the next two pages. It should be emphasized that the errors that were made in assembling Figs. 1B, 2B, 6B and 7B did not have a major effect on either the results reported or the conclusions reached in this article. The authors are grateful to the Editor of International Journal of Molecular Medicine for allowing them the opportunity to publish this Corrigendum, and all of the authors agree to the publication of this Corrigendum. The authors sincerely apologize for their mistakes and regret any inconvenience that these errors may have caused. [International Journal of Molecular Medicine 37: 825‑835, 2016; DOI: 10.3892/ijmm.2016.2482].