Collison, Adam M.
Li, Junyao
de Siqueira, Ana Pereira
Lv, Xuejiao
Toop, Hamish D.
Morris, Jonathan C.
Starkey, Malcolm R.
Hansbro, Philip M.
Zhang, Jie
Mattes, Joerg
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Health and Medical Research Council (1011153)
International Cooperation program of Jilin Province (No. 20140414066GH)
Article History
Received: 21 December 2017
Accepted: 10 January 2019
First Online: 7 February 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Written informed consent was obtained from individual subjects, and all the studies were approved by the Medical Ethics Committee of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, P.R. China.The Animal Care and Ethics Committee of the University of Newcastle, Australia approved all animal experiments, which were conducted and reported in accordance with the ARRIVE guidelines.
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