Corrigendum: Melanocortin Receptor 4 Deficiency Affects Body Weight Regulation, Grooming Behavior, and Substrate Preference in the Rat

Joram D. Mul, Ruben van Boxtel, Dylan J.M. Bergen, Maike A. Brans, Jan H. Brakkee, Pim W. Toonen, Keith M. Garner, Roger A.H. Adan and Edwin Cuppen

Obesity (2012) 20 (3): 612–621; doi: 10.1038/oby.2011.81. e-pub ahead of print 28 April 2011.

Following the publication of this article, the authors noted that on page 3 (Methods and procedures; subsections “ICV administration of MTII and AgRP_79–129” and “Grooming assay”), on page 6 and 7 (Results; subsections “Pharmacological manipulation of the melanocortin system in vivo” and “The MC4R^K314X mutation abolishes MTII-induced grooming behavior”), and on page 7 (Figure legends of “Figure 6” and “Figure 7”) the amount of peptide injected ICV was 1 nmol for MTII or AgRP_79–129 and not 1 nmol/l.