Correction : Stem Cell Research & Therapy (2019) 10:17 https://doi.org/10.1186/s13287-018-1111-y

Following publication of this article [1], the authors found that incorrect representative echocardiographic images were mistakenly included in Fig. 5a (MSCs-mCherry group and MSCs-Fstl1 group) during manuscript preparation, which partially overlapped with representative echocardiographic images in our other contemporaneous article (Fig. 4A, MI/antagomir NC group, MI/miR-9-5p antagomir group) [2]. In response, the authors updated all representative images in Fig. 5a and re-evaluated all raw images, generating accompanying Fig. 5b–g with dot-plots indicated. All raw echocardiographic images related to Fig. 5a–g were provided as supplementary (Additional file 1: Figure S1). Notably, the main conclusions of this article remain consistent throughout.