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Erratum to: C-type natriuretic peptide ameliorates pulmonary fibrosis by acting on lung fibroblasts in mice

Respiratory Research volume 17, Article number: 113 (2016) Cite this article

The Original Article was published on 19 February 2016

Erratum

In the original publication of this article [1], the acknowledgements and contributions sections were incorrectly listed.

These should have been:

Author’s contributions

Conception and Design: TK, TN, KK. Analysis and Interpretation: TK, TN, JH, HH, KM. Collecting the data: TK, JH, HH, KM, YS, MZ, HT. Drafting the manuscript for important intellectual content: TK, TN, JH, HH, KM, YS, MI. Obtaining the funding: TK, TN, MM, OM, KK. All authors have approved the version of the submitted manuscript.

Acknowledgements

We thank R. Weingerg for providing the hTERT immortalizing gene. We thank K. Sasai and T. Akagi for providing the lentivirus vector expressing hTERT. This work was supported in part by Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists B (26861135) and the Intramural Research Fund for Cardiovascular Diseases of the National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center to T. Kimura, Japan Research Foundation for Clinical Pharmacology, Kobayashi Foundation for Cancer Research, Mochida Memorial Foundation for Medical and Pharmaceutical Research, Uehara Memorial Foundation, and Takeda Science Foundation to T. Nojiri, Grant‐in‐Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (Research in a proposed research area) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan, and Japan Vascular Disease Research Foundation to K. Kangawa.

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  1. Kimura T, et al. C-type natriuretic peptide ameliorates pulmonary fibrosis by acting on lung fibroblasts in mice. Respir Res. 2016;17:19. doi:10.1186/s12931-016-0335-6.

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  1. Department of Biochemistry, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center Research Institute, 5-7-1, Fujishirodai, Suita-city, Osaka, 565-8565, Japan

    Toru Kimura, Takashi Nojiri, Jun Hino, Koichi Miura, Masahiro Zenitani, Hiroyuki Takabatake, Mikiya Miyazato & Kenji Kangawa

  2. Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita-City, Osaka, Japan

    Toru Kimura, Takashi Nojiri, Yasushi Shintani, Hiroyuki Takabatake & Meinoshin Okumura

  3. Department of Regenerative Medicine and Tissue Engineering, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Suita-City, Osaka, Japan

    Hiroshi Hosoda

  4. Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto-City, Kyoto, Japan

    Masayoshi Inoue

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Kimura, T., Nojiri, T., Hino, J. et al. Erratum to: C-type natriuretic peptide ameliorates pulmonary fibrosis by acting on lung fibroblasts in mice. Respir Res 17, 113 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12931-016-0429-1

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