Chagas-Lima, Alessandra Catarina
Pereira, Miria Gomes
Fampa, Patrícia
Lima, Michele Souza
Kluck, George Eduardo Gabriel
Atella, Georgia Correa
Article History
Received: 21 December 2018
Accepted: 18 April 2019
First Online: 2 July 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: All the animal care and experimental protocols were conducted in accordance with the guidelines of the institutional animal care and use committee (Comissão de Avaliação do Uso de Animais em Pesquisa da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, CAUAP-UFRJ) and the NIH Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals (ISBN 0-309-05377-3). The protocols were approved by CEUA-UFRJ (Comissão de Ética no Uso de Animais da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro) under registry number #115/13. Technicians at the animal facility of the Institute of Medical Biochemistry Leopoldo de Meis (UFRJ) performed the entire rabbit husbandry under strict guidelines to ensure careful and consistent handling of the animals.
: This work was supported by Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ) (ExternalRef removed) and by Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento (CNPq) (ExternalRef removed). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.