In the article, “Effects of Dietary Sphingomyelin on Central Nervous System Myelination in Developing Rats” (Pediatr Res 53:589-593), a few corrections were not made to the final proof. They are listed below. The publisher regrets the error.

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    Last sentence in the “ABSTRACT” should read These findings suggest that dietary SM contributes to CNS myelination in developing rats with experimental inhibition of SPT activity.

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    Correspondence: Kyoichi Oshida, Ph.D.

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    “Study design.” in the “METHODS” (right column, line 11) s.c. injection of LCS (100 mg/kg; Sigma-Aldrich Japan K.K., Tokyo, Japan)

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    “Morphometric analysis of optic nerve myelination.” in the “METHODS” just above Equation 1 The axon area was obtained from the digitized axon perimeter using NIH Image v.1.61 software

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    “Morphometric analysis of optic nerve myelination.” in the “METHODS” just after Equation 1 The fiber area was obtained using NIH Image software to detect the digitized outermost major dense line of the myelin sheath…

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    Last footnote in Table 2

For the LCS group, values in parenthesis indicate the percent decreases relative to the non-LCS group.