Construction and in vivo/in vitro Evaluation of a Nanoporous Ion-Responsive Targeted Drug Delivery System for Recombinant Human Interferon α-2b Delivery [Corrigendum]

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Construction and in vivo/in vitro evaluation of a nanoporous ion-responsive targeted drug delivery system for recombinant human interferon α-2b delivery

Liu H, Zhu J, Bao P, et al. Int J Nanomedicine. 2019;14:5339–5353.

The authors have advised Figure 5G on page 5347 is incorrect. The authors inadvertently included a duplicate image for the control and 5µg/mL samples. The correct Figure 5 is as follows.

Figure 5 Characterization studies. (A) SEM images (i: CCPM; ii: surface of CCPM; iii: rhIFNα-2b-CCPM; iv: CS-rhIFNα-2b-CCPM); (B) Particle size distribution of CSrhIFNα-2b-CCPM; (C) Accumulative release from the optimal formulation; (D) Electrophoretogram of different rhIFNα-2b samples dyed by Coomassie brilliant blue (a: rhIFNα-2b solution; b: rhIFNα-2b extracted from nanoporous microspheres; c: rhIFNα-2b release solution for 12 hrs; d: rhIFNα-2b extracted from nanoporous microspheres after in vitro release for 24 hrs; e: rhIFNα-2b in effluent and washing liquid); (E) Circular dichroism spectra of rhIFNα-2b; (F) Inhibition rate of cell proliferation (n=3); and (G) Micrograph of the inhibition effect of the nanoporous microsphere releasing solution with different concentrations on A549 cells.

Abbreviations: CCPM, nanoporous microspheres; rhIFNα-2b-CCPM, rhIFNα-2b carboxymethyl chitosan nanoporous microspheres; CS-rhIFNα-2b-CCPM, chitosan rhIFNα-2b carboxymethyl chitosan nanoporous microspheres; IR, inhibition rate.