All experiments and animal housing procedures were ethically performed following standard protocols approved by the Ethics Committee of Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran (Approval ID: IR. SSU. SPH.REC. 1395.39). The euthanasia procedure used in this study was based on AVMA Guidelines19 for the Euthanasia of Animals (AVMA, 2013) using 10:1 (mg/mg) solution of a ketamine-xylazine mix. We declare that all authors have read the checklist for ARRIVE guidelines (The ARRIVE guidelines 2.0: author checklist) and complied with its instructions.
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