Alipour, Sadaf
Omranipour, Ramesh
Eslami, Bita
Khalighfard, Solmaz
Saberi, Azin
Shabestari, Azar
Alizadeh, Ali Mohammad
Article History
Received: 26 December 2022
Accepted: 8 July 2023
First Online: 12 July 2023
Declarations
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: The study protocol was approved by the Institutional Ethics Committee of Imam Khomeini Hospital Complex, Tehran University of Medical Sciences (ethical code: IR.TUMS.IKHC. REC.1399.114). At the beginning of the study and throughout the procedures, all animal protocols were checked and confirmed to agree with the Ethics Guidelines for Animal Studies of the Ethics Committee of Tehran University of Medical Sciences; which is under the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments and the National Institutes of Health guide for the care and use of Laboratory animals (NIH Publications No. 8023, revised 1978). A statement confirming the study was carried out in compliance with the ARRIVE guidelines. Written informed consent was obtained from the participants and/or their legal guardian(s) for their anonymized information to be published in this article.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.