Exp Ther Med 15:4543–4549, 2018; DOI: 10.3892/etm.2018.5967

Subsequently to the publication of the above article, the authors drew to the Editor’s attention that the western blots shown in Fig. 2H and I had been represented using the same control western blots, whereas these figure parts should have been shown incorporated in the same figure panel (now Fig. 2H; see the revised figure opposite). Moreover, the second-listed author (Dinghua Yang) requested that their name be removed from the article, with the agreement of all the other authors. Consequently, the corresponding author on this paper is now the first-named author, Chen Chen. The revised author affiliation details are therefore as follows:

CHEN CHEN¹, QINGHUA ZENG², LIANG LUO¹ and CHENGZHI CAI¹

¹Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery; ²Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Hunan Provincial People’s Hospital, Changsha, Hunan 410002, P.R. China

Correspondence to: Dr Chen Chen, Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Hunan Provincial People’s Hospital, 61 Jiefang West Road, Changsha, Hunan 410002, P.R. China E-mail: chenchen2043@163.com

Note that the error associated with the assembly of Fig. 2 did not have a major impact on either the overall results or on the conclusions reported in this study. All the authors agree with the publication of this corrigendum, and are grateful to the Editor of Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine for granting them the opportunity to publish this; furthermore, they apologize to the readership for any inconvenience caused.