Author Correction: Inflamm. Res. (2017) 66:25–37 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00011-016-0989-z

In the original publication, the following statement was missed to include in the Acknowledgments section:

“The protocol described in this publication has been granted a patent by the U.S. Patent Office”.


The complete Acknowledgment section should read as below:

This work was supported by University-Industry Collaboration Programme UIM/186 of the Innovation and Technology Fund (Hong Kong) to HYAL. S-YT was supported in part by National Institutes of Health (NIH) Grant AI-23990 (to Stephen J. Galli) and by the Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine. The protocol described in this publication has been granted a patent by the U.S. Patent Office.