Li, Weiguo
Ward, Rebecca
Valenzuela, John Paul
Dong, Guangkuo
Fagan, Susan C.
Ergul, Adviye
Funding for this research was provided by:
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (BX000347, BX000891)
National Institutes of Health (R01NS083559, NS063965)
Article History
Received: 5 December 2016
Revised: 17 January 2017
Accepted: 31 January 2017
First Online: 1 March 2017
Compliance with Ethical Standards
: All institutional and national guidelines for the care and use of laboratory animals were followed. All protocols were approved by the institutional animal care and use committee. This study was conducted in accordance with the National Institute of Health guidelines for the care and use of animals in research, and adhered to the current RIGOR guidelines for the translational research with respect to (1) blinding of the study, (2) randomization of treatment (intervention) groups, (3) power analysis, and (4) statistical analysis.
: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.