Konishi, Misako
Ishizaki, Hiroshi
Kameyama, Ken-ichiro
Murakami, Kenji
Yamamoto, Takehisa http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8707-0639
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (26850203)
Article History
Received: 26 September 2018
Accepted: 29 November 2018
First Online: 29 December 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All animal experiments and protocols were reviewed and approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees of the National Institute of Animal Health, NARO (Permit Numbers: 14–030, 14–033, and 14,112,051).and Institute of Livestock and Grassland Science, NARO (Permit Numbers: 15112044). We explained about the aim and plan of the current study to the owners in advance of application for permission to Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees, and we obtained verbal informed consent from the owners of cattle sampled for this study.
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