Tie, Kunyuan
Yuan, Yuyu
Yan, Shiqing
Yu, Xi
Zhang, Qiuyang
Xu, Huihui
Zhang, Yang
Gu, Jingmin
Sun, Changjiang
Lei, Liancheng
Han, Wenyu
Feng, Xin http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0121-1152
Funding for this research was provided by:
The National Key Research and Development Plan (2016YFD0501307)
The National Natural Science Foundation of China (3167130410)
Article History
Received: 20 November 2017
Accepted: 5 March 2018
First Online: 21 March 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: All authors read and approved the final manuscript and declare no conflict of interest.
: All animal studies were conducted according to the National Guidelines for Experimental Animal Welfare (Ministry of Science and Technology of China, 2006) and approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of Jilin University (IACUC). One-day-old chickens (purchased from the Experimental Animal Centre of Jilin University, Changchun, China) were housed in an air-conditioned animal facility with a 12-h light/dark cycle in the National Experimental Teaching Demonstration Centre of Jilin University (Changchun, China).