Correction to: Scientific Reports https://doi.org/10.1038/srep12333, published online 21 July 2015

This Article contains errors. In Figure 2 panels A and C were inadvertently combined from the same original image. This error has been rectified and the corrected Figure 2 with an updated legend is shown below.

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Injecting vitamin D3 & ovalbumin and feeding with high-fat diet induced reconstruction of the carotid artery. Detection of smooth muscle protein 22 alpha (SM22α) expression denotes pathological change in the intima. Compared with the normal-controlled group (A), there was low expression of SM22α in intima of atherosclerotic rats (B). YD (DF) and atorvastatin (C) intervention showed relatively high expression of SM22α (G). Data denote mean ± SD, n = 12 *P < 0.05 vs. the atherosclerosis group, **P < 0.01 vs. the atherosclerosis group.