Zamani, Farhad
Khalighfard, Solmaz
Kalhori, Mohammad Reza
Poorkhani, Amirhoushang
Amiriani, Taghi
Hosseinzadeh, Payam
Esmati, Ebrahim
Alemrajabi, Mahdi
Nikoofar, Alireza
Safarnezhad Tameshkel, Fahimeh
Alizadeh, Ali Mohammad http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1147-3335
Funding for this research was provided by:
Iran University of Medical Sciences (36001)
Tehran University of Medical Sciences (29811)
Article History
Received: 21 May 2023
Accepted: 12 August 2023
First Online: 19 September 2023
Declarations
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: The manuscript authors have no conflicts of interest to declare and are responsible for the paper’s content.
: All methods were performed under the relevant guidelines and regulations. All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the institutional and/or national research committee ethical standards. The experimental procedures and care protocols were approved by a review board committee of the Tehran University of Medical Sciences (IR.TUMS.VCR.REC.1397.733) and the Iran University of Medical Sciences (IR.IUMS.REC.1398.548) and registered by the Iranian Randomized Control Trial (IRCT) ethical board (NO: IRCT2014092118745N3). Written informed consent was obtained from each participant before sample collection.