[Erratum] Tanshinone IIA and Astragaloside IV promote the angiogenesis of mesenchymal stem cell‑derived endothelial cell‑like cells via upregulation of Cx37, Cx40 and Cx43

• Authors:
  • Zhe Li
  • Sha Zhang
  • Liang Cao
  • Wei Li
  • Yu‑Chen Ye
  • Zi‑Xuan Shi
  • Zong‑Ren Wang
  • Lian‑Xu Sun
  • Jia‑Wei Wang
  • Lin‑Tao Jia
  • Wen Wang

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  Affiliations: Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710032, P.R. China, Department of Histology and Embryology, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710032, P.R. China, Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710032, P.R. China, Department of Acupuncture, Shaanxi Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710003, P.R. China, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710032, P.R. China
• Published online on: July 9, 2018     https://doi.org/10.3892/etm.2018.6428
• Pages: 2167-2167

• Copyright: © Li et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution License.

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Exp Ther Med 15: [Related article:] 1847-1854, 2018; DOI: 10.3892/etm.2017.5636

Owing to an oversight in the production process, Fig. 4 of the above article was not published as the finally corrected version; essentially, the units of the y-axis [‘Distance of dye diffusion (µm)’] were printed incorrectly.

Figure 4. Treatment with T and A promotes GJIC functions of mesenchymal stem cell-derived endothelial cell-like cells. (A) GJIC was evaluated 20 min following the scrape and incubation with fluorescent dye. (B) The distance that the dye diffused perpendicular to the scrape was measured and calculated. *P<0.05 vs. Ctrl group. #P<0.05 vs. T+A group. T, Tanshinone IIA; A, Astragaloside IV; GJIC, gap junctional intercellular communication; Cx, connexin; Ctrl, control.

Fig. 4 should have appeared as shown opposite. This error did not have an impact on the overall meaning of the paper, or on the reported conclusions of this study. We regret that the non-corrected units were allowed to remain in the published version of Fig. 4 in this paper, and apologize to the authors and the readership for the inconvenience caused.