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Correction to: Scientific Reportshttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-27881-5, published online 21 June 2018
This Article contains errors.
As a result of an error during figure assembly, incorrect images are displayed in Figures 1e (IM-MSC, 1 h and Day 3), 2a (FG-MSC), 2b (IM-MSC and FG-MSC), 4a (IM-MSC and FG-Cont), 5b (Sham and FG-Cont), Supplementary Figure S1a (IM-MSC) and Supplementary Figure S1b (IM-MSC). Some of the microscopy images in this paper are present in other publications (references [2,3] in the original paper and references [i,ii] below) due to the reuse of control animals and/or confusion of the image data base. The correct Figures 1, 2, 4 and 5 appear below and in the corrected Supplementary Information file that accompanies this Author Correction.
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Fig. 1
Improved initial retention and survival of MSCs transplanted using FG-aided, instant epicardial placement. (a) Four weeks after coronary artery ligation, female rats were transplanted with male MSCs using FG-aided, instant epicardial placement (FG-MSC group) or intramyocardial injection (IM-MSC group). Quantitative PCR for the male specific Sry gene detected increased retention of donor cells (shown as % of the total cell number transplanted) in the FG-MSC group compared to the IM-MSC group. †p < 0.05 vs. the corresponding time point value of the IM-MSC group, n = 5 or 6 in each point. (b) % loss of retained MSCs between day 3 and 7 (left panel) and between day 7 and 28 (right panel) were calculated from the data shown in Fig. 1a. (c) Immunofluorescence analysis demonstrated that transplanted...