Article History
Received: 25 May 2019
Accepted: 21 August 2019
First Online: 4 September 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the North Tehran Branch of the Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran, (Ethics committee of biomedical research center, No. 18245/86–2) and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. Furthermore, this article does not contain any studies performed by any of the authors on animals. It is noteworthy that according to the ethical standards, all patients and control subjects provided verbal informed consent.
: Not Applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.