Erratum to: Significance of the urokinasetype plasminogen activator and its receptor in the progression of focal segmental glomerulosclerosis in clinical and mouse models (Journal of Biomedical Science (2016) 23 (24) DOI: 10.1186/s12929-016-0242-7)

Following publication of this article [1] it has come to our attention that one of the supported grants from the tri-service general hospital was omitted: we thank all subjects who participated in the study. this work was supported by grants from the national defense medical center,the tri-service general hospital (tsgh-c103-007-s02),and the ministry of science and technology of taiwan (most 102-2314-b-016-012-),taiwan. this work was also partly supported by a grant from taipei medical university (tmu100-ae3-y06). the authors thank ms. hsin-yi tsai for her technical support. this should have been presented as: we thank all subjects who participated in the study. this work was supported by grants from the national defense medical center,the tri-service general hospital (tsgh-c103-007-s02,tsgh-c104-007-007-s02),and the ministry of science and technology of taiwan (most 102-2314-b-016-012-),taiwan. this work was also partly supported by a grant from taipei medical university (tmu100-ae3-y06). the authors thank ms. hsin-yi tsai for her technical support. the authors would like to sincerely apologize for any inconvenience or confusion this may have caused. © the author(s). 2017.