Following the publication of the above article, an interested reader drew to the authors' attention that, in Fig. 7 on p. 1282, a pair of the western blotting bands in the Akt blot positioned adjacent to each other looked strikingly similar. Although the authors considered that the data were correct as shown (and the Editorial Office were in agreement that it was not certain that the bands were identical), to avoid any possible confusion or suspicion, the authors requested that the figure be reprinted showing the Akt data obtained from one of the repeated experiments. The revised version of Fig. 7, containing the replacement data for the Akt western blotting data, is shown opposite. All the authors agree with the publication of this corrigendum, and are grateful to the Editor of International Journal of Molecular Medicine for allowing them the opportunity to publish this for the purposes of clarifying the presented data. [International Journal of Molecular Medicine 40: 1277‑1284, 2017; DOI: 10.3892/ijmm.2017.3104].
Keywords: Akt; ERK1/2; argan oil; iris; melanogenesis.