Author responsibilities, integrity, ethics
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Article title :
Human and animal rights
The authors declare that the work described has been carried out in accordance with the Declaration of
Helsinki of the World Medical Association revised in 2013 for experiments involving humans as well as in
accordance with the EU Directive 2010/63/EU for animal experiments.
The authors declare that the work described has not involved experimentation on humans or animals.
Informed consent and patient details
The authors declare that this report does not contain any personal information that could lead to the
identification of the patient(s) and/or volunteers.
The authors declare that they obtained a written informed consent from the patients and/or volunteers
included in the article and that this report does not contain any personal information that could lead to their
identification.
The authors declare that the work described does not involve patients or volunteers.
Disclosure of interest
The authors declare that they have no known competing financial or personal relationships that could be
viewed as influencing the work reported in this paper.
The authors declare the following financial or personal relationships that could be viewed as influencing the
work reported in this paper:
Funding
This work did not receive any grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.
This work has been supported by:
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