Int J Mol Med 43: 2303-2318, 2019; DOI: 10.3892/ijmm.2019.4158

After the publication of the above paper, the authors noted that the names of a couple of the authors listed on the paper were associated with the wrong affliation: Specifically, the eighth and ninth listed authors, Francesca Antonaros and Allison Piovesan, are located at DIMES at the University of Florence (fourth affiliation address), not at CSGI, the Research Center for Colloids and Nanoscience in Florence (third affliation address). Therefore, the author and affiliation details for this paper should have been presented as follows:

ALESSANDRO SALVI¹, MARIKA VEZZOLI², SARA BUSATTO¹, LUCIA PAOLINI^1,3, TERESA FARANDA¹, EDOARDO ABENI¹, MARIA CARACAUSI⁴, FRANCESCA ANTONAROS⁴, ALLISON PIOVESAN⁴, CHIARA LOCATELLI⁵, GUIDO COCCHI^5,6, GUALTIERO ALVISI⁷, GIUSEPPINA DE PETRO¹, DORIS RICOTTA¹, PAOLO BERGESE^1,3 and ANNALISA RADEGHIERI^1,3

¹Department of Molecular and Translational Medicine, University of Brescia; ²Unit of Biostatistics, Department of Molecular and Translational Medicine, University of Brescia, I-25123 Brescia; ³CSGI, Research Center for Colloids and Nanoscience, Sesto Fiorentino, I-50019 Florence; ⁴Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine (DIMES), Unit of Histology, Embryology and Applied Biology, University of Bologna; ⁵Neonatology Unit, St. Orsola-Malpighi Polyclinic; ⁶Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences (DIMEC), University of Bologna, I-40138 Bologna; ⁷Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Padua, I-35121 Padua, Italy

The authors regret that this error with the author affiliations for Francesca Antonaros and Allison Piovesan was not noticed prior to the publication of their paper, and apologize for any inconvenience caused.