Erratum to: J Physiol Sci (2009) 59:307–316 DOI 10.1007/s12576-009-0037-7

The authors would like to correct the acknowledgments as follows:

Acknowledgments This work was partly supported by the IT R&D program of MKE/IITA 2008-F-029-01, Development of e-Organ system based on Cyber Computing, the NRL program of Korea Science & Engineering Foundation (ROA-2008-000-20127-0), and the KOSEF project (R01-2007-000-20691-0).