Toru Kimura1,2, Takashi Nojiri3,4, Jun Hino3, Hiroshi Hosoda5, Koichi Miura3, Yasushi Shintani4, Masayoshi Inoue6, Masahiro Zenitani3, Hiroyuki Takabatake3,4, Mikiya Miyazato3, Meinoshin Okumura4, Kenji Kangawa3. 1. Department of Biochemistry, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center Research Institute, 5-7-1, Fujishirodai, Suita-city, Osaka, 565-8565, Japan. kimura@thoracic.med.osaka-u.ac.jp. 2. Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita-City, Osaka, Japan. kimura@thoracic.med.osaka-u.ac.jp. 3. Department of Biochemistry, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center Research Institute, 5-7-1, Fujishirodai, Suita-city, Osaka, 565-8565, Japan. 4. Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita-City, Osaka, Japan. 5. Department of Regenerative Medicine and Tissue Engineering, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Suita-City, Osaka, Japan. 6. Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto-City, Kyoto, Japan.
In the original publication of this article [1], the acknowledgements and contributions sections were incorrectly listed.These should have been:Author’s contributionsConception 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.AcknowledgementsWe 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.