This work is licensed under a The authors and journal apologise for an error in the above paper, which appeared in volume 7 part 2, pages 295–304. The error relates to the text in the ‘Animal model’ section of the ‘Materials and methods’ section given on page 296:
The original article stated:
‘In the sHT rats, groups A–C were separately induced by administration of 20 mg/kg/day methimazole (MMI), 30 mg/kg/day MMI and 40 mg/kg/day MMI once daily by gavage.’
This should have stated:
‘In the sHT rats, groups A–C were separately induced by administration of 5 mg/kg/day methimazole (MMI), 15 mg/kg/day MMI and 20 mg/kg/day MMI once daily by gavage.’