Doki, Tomoyoshi
Toda, Masahiro
Hasegawa, Nobuhisa
Hohdatsu, Tsutomu
Takano, Tomomi
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), No. 16H05039)
2019 (Kitasato University Research Grant for Young Researchers)
Article History
Received: 30 December 2019
Accepted: 4 March 2020
First Online: 31 March 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
: All applicable national and institutional guidelines for the care and use of animals were followed. The animal experimentation protocol was approved by the President of Kitasato University through the judgment of the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of Kitasato University (approval no. 18-152). The SPF cats were bred in our own laboratory and maintained in a temperature-controlled isolated facility. Sample sizes were determined based on our experience with FIPV infection models, and the minimum number of cats was used.
: Informed consent was obtained from the legal custodian of all experimental animals described in this work for the procedures undertaken. No animals or humans are identifiable within this publication, and therefore additional informed consent for publication was not required.