Alonso-Alvarez, Carlos http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4765-551X
Cantarero, Alejandro http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5816-701X
Romero-Haro, Ana Ángela http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7127-4733
Chastel, Olivier
Pérez-Rodríguez, Lorenzo http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5926-1438
Funding for this research was provided by:
University of Turku (UTU) including Turku University Central Hospital
Article History
Received: 20 February 2020
Revised: 5 June 2020
Accepted: 9 June 2020
First Online: 14 July 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: This investigation was approved by the institutional animal welfare committee (University of Castilla-La Mancha’s Committee on Ethics and Animal Experimentation) in accordance with pertinent Spanish (RD1201/2005) and European Union (86/609/CEE and 2010/63/EU) legislation under Protocol number 1011.01. The implanting procedure was performed under veterinary supervision. We used a planned humane endpoint where any bird would be immediately euthanized by cervical dislocation when it rapidly lost more than 20% of body mass.