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Article History

Received: 26 March 2020

Revised: 7 May 2020

Accepted: 11 June 2020

First Online: 26 June 2020

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: The Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) and the Department of Laboratory Animals (DOLA) at the Catholic University of Korea, Songeui Campus, accredited the Korea Excellence Animal laboratory Facility from the Korea Food and Drug Administration in 2017 and acquired AAALAC International full accreditation in 2018. All procedures involving animals were in accordance with the Laboratory Animals Welfare Act, the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals, and the Guidelines and Policies for Rodent Experimentation provided by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of the School of Medicine of the Catholic University of Korea. The study protocol was approved by the Institutional Review Board of the Catholic University of Korea (CUMC-2016-0062-03).

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: The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.