Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institutes of Health (1R01AI123131)
Connecticut Innovations (16-RMB-UCONN-02)
Article History
Received: 27 December 2018
Revised: 4 July 2019
Accepted: 16 July 2019
First Online: 6 August 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The protocols for animal studies were approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of the University of Connecticut and were conducted in accordance with NIH guidelines.
: Not applicable
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.