Following the publication of the above article and a corrigendum that was published in October 2023 to address the issue of misplaced control β‑actin western blots comparing between Figs. 3 and 4A (doi: 10.3892/or.2023.8646), an attentive reader drew to the authors' attention that the first author had apparently made additional unreported corrections to the revised version of Fig. 4 presented in the corrigendum. Although these image discrepancies did not alter the study’s primary …