Melnik, Svitlana
Werth, Nadine
Boeuf, Stephane
Hahn, Eva-Maria
Gotterbarm, Tobias
Anton, Martina
Richter, Wiltrud
Article History
Received: 3 December 2018
Revised: 13 February 2019
Accepted: 22 February 2019
First Online: 5 March 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study was approved by the local ethics committee (Medical Faculty of the University of Heidelberg), and informed consent was obtained from all the patients participating in the study, according to the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki, updated in 2000. Animal care and all animal experiments were performed according to the national guidelines, approved by the responsible national authority, the local Governmental Committee for Animal Experimentation (Regierungspräsidium Karlsruhe, Germany), and carried out accordingly.
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