Abstract
Following the publication of the above article, the authors have realized that the chemical structure presented for the intermediate product in Fig 3 was drawn incorrectly; specfically, the 'N's had been omitted from the structure. The structure as it should have appeared is shown in the revised version of Fig. 3 opposite. All the authors agree to the contents of this Corrigendum, and apologize to the Editor of International Journal of Molecular Medicine and to the readership for any inconvenience caused. [the original article was published in International Journal of Molecular Medicine 42: 3495‑3502, 2018; DOI: 10.3892/ijmm.2018.3893].