Correction to: Experimental & Molecular Medicine https://doi.org/10.1038/s12276-019-0278-3, published online 02 August 2019

After online publication of this article, the authors noticed an error in the Fig. 7A and Fig. 7B section.

As fluorescence photography was taken on different working days, different sections were confused, leading to the problem of repeated field in Fig. 7. Since the fluorescent slides to be tested were all stored in the same box, when immunofluorescence indicators caspase-8 and caspase-9 were taken, the markers ‘AP’ and ‘AP+si-NC’ on the slide were confused, resulting in partial overlap in Fig. 7A. When TUNEL’s results were taken, the markers ‘AP+si-AQP8’ and ‘AP+si-NC’ on the slide were confused, resulting in partial overlap in Fig. 7B.

The incorrect figure is shown below.

The correct figure is shown below.

All the authors believe that the corrections would not affect any results, discussions and conclusions displayed in the rest of the article.

The authors apologize for any inconvenience caused.

The original article has been corrected.