Ostromyshenskii, Dmitrii I.
Chernyaeva, Ekaterina N.
Kuznetsova, Inna S.
Podgornaya, Olga I.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Russian Foundation for Basic Research (11-04-01700)
Russian Science Foundation (15-15-20026)
Russian Academy of Sciences (01.2.01457147)
Article History
Received: 16 May 2017
Accepted: 6 February 2018
First Online: 20 February 2018
Ethics approval
: This study was performed according to the international ethics standard for animal experiments, European convention for the protection of vertebrate animals used for experiments and other scientific purposes (Strasbourg, 18.03.1986) as well as biomedical ethics protocol certified by the Russian Academy of Sciences Committee on Bioethics (protocol 24, March 5, 2011). The housing and feeding of animals was directed by a qualified veterinarian. Animals were killed after experiments by cervical dislocation by a person fully trained in the appropriate procedures to minimize suffering. The protocol used for euthanasia of animals was approved by the Committee on the Ethics of Animal experiments at the Institute of Cytology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia.
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