Mwale, Pharaoh Fellow
Lee, Chi-Hsin
Leu, Sy-Jye
Lee, Yu-Ching
Wu, Hsueh-Hsia
Lin, Liang-Tzung
Lin, Tony Eight
Huang, Yun-Ju
Yang, Yi-Yuan
Funding for this research was provided by:
Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST105-2622-8-038-001-TB1)
Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW106-TDU-B-212-144001, MOHW107-TDU-B-212-114014 and MOHW108-TDU-B-212-124014)
Article History
Received: 14 December 2018
Revised: 7 March 2019
Accepted: 10 March 2019
First Online: 26 April 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
:
: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: The 24-week-old white leghorn female chickens were kept under approved conditions in the animal center room at Taipei Medical University. Experimental procedures on female chickens (<i>Gallus domesticus</i>) follows standards set by the Animal Care and Use Committee of Taipei Medical University (ethical approval number: LAC-2015-0302, valid on 1 February 2016 to 31 January 2019).
: The authors declare no experiment has been performed with human participants.