Otto, Marius http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1622-4944
Blatt, Sebastian
Pabst, Andreas
Mandic, Robert
Schwarz, Johanna
Neff, Andreas
Ziebart, Thomas
Article History
Received: 4 July 2018
Accepted: 11 January 2019
First Online: 28 January 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The local ethics committee (Landesärztekammer Rheinland-Pfalz) approved all of the experiments with human material in this article (Ethikvotum 837.387.11 (7929)). All applicable international, national, and institutional guidelines for the care and use of animals were followed. All procedures performed in studies involving animals were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institution or practice at which the studies were conducted. A corresponding animal test application (animal experiment G 12-1-037) for the experiments was approved by the Landesuntersuchungsamt Rheinland-Pfalz in Koblenz and thus meets all §8 Paragraph 3 (2) of the German Animal Welfare Act required preconditions.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.