Following the publication of the article, the authors noticed an error in the published version of Fig. 3. In brief, certain of the images were misplaced, errors which occurred during the preparation and assembly of the figure owing to oversights in labeling of the image data. The corrected version of Fig. 3 is included below. The authors regret that this error occurred, and apologize for the inconvenience caused by the error. They thank the Editor for allowing them the opportunity to publish this Corrigendum. [the original article was published in the International Journal of Molecular Medicine 36: 1335‑1344, 2015; DOI: 10.3892/ijmm.2015.2330].