Doležal, Petr http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0202-9099
Furton, Kenneth G.
Lněničková, Jana
Kyjaková, Pavlína
Škeříková, Veronika
Valterová, Irena
Pinc, Ludvík
Urban, Štěpán
Funding for this research was provided by:
Ministerstvo Vnitra České Republiky (Vf20142016036, VI20172020075)
Ústav Organické Chemie a Biochemie, Akademie Věd České Republiky (RVO: 61388963)
Ministerstvo Školství, Mládeže a Tělovýchovy (OPPC CZ.2.16/3.1.00/21537, NPU I LO1601)
Article History
Received: 8 October 2018
Accepted: 29 January 2019
First Online: 12 February 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Charles University, Prague, Faculty of Science (approval number 2016/28) and complies with the Declaration of Helsinki for Medical Research involving Human Subjects. The recruited volunteers were verbally instructed regarding the sampling method and analysis, and they each signed an agreement (written consent) regarding the use of their scent samples in this experiment. The samples from volunteers were used for this experiment only, and then these samples were destroyed.This study also strictly observed Act No. 246/1992 Coll. as subsequently amended “On the protection of animals against cruelty”, and the protocol was approved by the Expert Commission for the Welfare of Experimental Animals of the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague under Resolution No. 01/14 on 3rd February 2014. The Canine Behavior Research Center was approved by the Ministry of Agriculture of the Czech Republic to perform experiments on canines under Resolution No. 16OZ13147/2013–171,241. The handling of the canines did not involve the routine training of the canines for the scent identification procedure.The Ethics approval was attached in this manuscript submission.
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