Updates are available Correction dated 2018-10-07

Article History

Received: 31 October 2017

Accepted: 13 March 2018

First Online: 27 March 2018

Change Date: 30 September 2018

Change Type: Correction

Change Details: The original article [1] contained a minor error regarding the mean diameter of the alginate microcapsules described in relation to Fig. 4 in the Results section. The microcapsules had an actual mean diameter of 3000 μm instead of 1000 μm as mistakenly mentioned in the original article.

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: The experiment was carried out at the Veterinary Hospital of the University of Veterinary Medicine and Zootechny (FMVZ), UNESP, Campus de Botucatu (Department of Surgery and Veterinary Anesthesiology), in the Laboratory of Cell Therapy, FMVZ, Unesp Campus Botucatu) in 2016. The owner of the animals signed the consent form to use their animals in the study. It was approved by the Ethics Committee on Animal Experimentation of the University of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science of the State University of São Paulo (UNESP) - Botucatu, under protocol number 052/2016.

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