Chidiac, Jose Johann http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5593-3217
Kassab, Ammar
Rifai, Khaldoun
Al-Chaer, Elie D.
Saadé, Nayef E.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Conseil National de la Recherche Scientifique (O/651)
Article History
Received: 14 May 2018
Accepted: 10 September 2018
First Online: 18 September 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: All experiments have been reviewed and approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) of the American University of Beirut under a written protocol and in accordance with the Policy on Human Care and Use of Laboratory Animals and the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals published by the National Institutes of Health in the USA.
: The animal experimental protocol in this study was approved by the Institutional Animal Care Committee, number IACUC # 16-03-466, approved on 31 March 2016.
: All authors have approved the manuscript and given their consent for their data to be published in the report.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
: The dataset supporting the conclusions of this article is included within the article.