Suprovych, T. M.
Salyha, Yu. T.
Suprovych, M. P.
Fedorovych, E. I.
Fedorovych, V. V.
Chornyj, I. O.
Article History
Received: 3 December 2021
Revised: 12 January 2022
Accepted: 6 July 2022
First Online: 21 July 2022
COMPLIANCE WITH ETHICAL STANDARDS
: <i>Conflict of interest</i>. The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.
: <i>Statement on the welfare of animals.</i> All studies were carried out taking into account the requirements of the Council of Europe Directive 1998/58/EC of July 20, 1998, concerning the protection of animals kept for farming purposes, the European Convention “On the Protection of Vertebrate Animals Used for Experimental and Scientific Purposes” of March 18, 1986, the Council of Europe Directive 2010/63/EC of September 22, 2010, and the “General Ethical Principles for Experiments on Animals” accepted by the First National Congress on Bioethics in Kyiv in 2001. The permissions for the use of animals for experimental studies were obtained in Podilsky State Agrarian Technical University and Zubets Institute of Animals Breeding and Genetics (National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine) and approved by the bioethics committees in both institutions. The experimental work was carried out during 2010–2018.