Wen-Xiang Liu1,2†Yan-Jie Zhang3†Yu-Feng Wang2Francesca Gioia Klinger4Shao-Jing Tan2Donatella Farini4Massimo De Felici4Wei Shen2Shun-Feng Cheng1,2*1College of Animal Science and Technology, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, China2College of Life Sciences, Institute of Reproductive Sciences, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, China3College of Veterinary Medicine, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, China4Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy

In the published article, there was an error in Figure 3A as published. The wrong representative transmission electron microscopy (TEM) image of oocytes in follicles was used. The corrected Figure 3 and its caption appear below.

Figure 3. LH and FSH suppressed autophagy in nicotine-exposed ovarian cells. (A) Autophagosomes (red arrow) in the oocyte (cysts or follicles) and somatic cytoplasm in each group’s ovaries with transmission electron microscopy (TEM). (B) The number of autophagosome in one oocyte in cysts of each group’s ovaries (control, n = 90; nicotine, n = 90; nicotine + LH, n = 90; and nicotine + FSH, n = 90, n = total number of oocytes from three replicate experiments). (C) The number of autophagosome in one oocyte in follicles of each group’s ovaries (control, n = 90; nicotine, n = 90; nicotine + LH, n = 90; and nicotine + FSH, n = 90; n = total number of oocytes from three replicate experiments; n = 12 newborn female pups in (A–C)). (D) Representative images of IHC for the BECLIN1 in tissue sections of the ovaries in each group. The white arrows indicate BECLIN1-positive somatic cells and oocytes in cysts or follicles. Scale bar, 50 μm. (E) Representative image of immunofluorescence (IF) for the LC3B in tissue sections of the ovaries in each group. The white arrows indicate BECLIN1-positive somatic cells and oocytes in cysts or follicles (n = 12 newborn female pups in (D, E)). Scale bar, 50 μm. (F) Relative protein level of BECLIN-1 in each group. (G) Relative protein level of LC3-II/LC3-I in each group (n = 36 newborn female pups in (F, G)). The data are presented as means ± S.E. of three independent experiments (each in triplicate). *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01.

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Keywords: LH, FSH, nicotine, folliculogenesis, autophagy

Citation: Liu W-X, Zhang Y-J, Wang Y-F, Klinger FG, Tan S-J, Farini D, De Felici M, Shen W and Cheng S-F (2025) Corrigendum: Protective mechanism of luteinizing hormone and follicle-stimulating hormone against nicotine-induced damage of mouse early folliculogenesis. Front. Cell Dev. Biol. 13:1570067. doi: 10.3389/fcell.2025.1570067

Received: 02 February 2025; Accepted: 20 February 2025;
Published: 07 March 2025.

Edited and reviewed by:

Jennifer R. Wood, University of Nebraska System, United States

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*Correspondence: Shun-Feng Cheng, c2ZjaGVuZ0BxYXUuZWR1LmNu

†These authors share first authorship