Erratum: The National Institutes of Health and guidance for reporting preclinical research.

This is an Erratum to BMC Medicine 2015, 13:34, highlighting a corrected references list. Please see related article: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7015/13/34.

Erratum

Authors’ corrected note

Two days after the publication of our paper [1], a reader brought to our attention some problems with our references. The erratum corrects the reference list.

Corrected text

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