Zhang, Maodong
Zakhartchouk, Alexander
Funding for this research was provided by:
University President's NSERC Fund
Article History
Received: 6 November 2017
Accepted: 24 January 2018
First Online: 1 March 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest. The study was funded in part by funding from the University of Saskatchewan President’s NSERC fund grant (A.Z. is a principal investigator), and M.Z. is supported by a China Scholarship Council.
: This article does not contain any studies with human participants. Work with animals was approved by the University of Saskatchewan’s Animal Research Ethics Board and adhered to the Canadian Council on Animal Care guidelines for humane animal use.
: Informed consent was not obtained since human participants were not involved in the study.