Exp Ther Med 14: 3737-3743, 2017; DOI: 10.3892/etm.2017.4943
Following the publication of this article, we realize that we failed to include the funding information for the article, and to acknowledge the funders. We should have included the following statement in the paper, under the heading ‘Funding’: ‘This study was supported by the Shandong Provincial Natural Science Foundation (grant no. ZR2016HB67).’
We apologize to the funders of our research project and to the readership of the Journal for any inconvenience caused.