Disclosure of Interest and Ethical Standards Form: Advances in Bioresearch

Disclosure of Interest

Authors must provide details of any financial or personal relationships that might bias the work being submitted. In a section of text preceding the References and also in the table below, please provide relevant information for each author. For example: Author A has received speaker honoraria and a research grant from device company X. Author B serves on an advisory board and owns stock in drug company Y. Author C owns the company whose employees served as study therapists. Authors D, E, and F declare that they have no conflicts to report.

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Ethical Standards and Informed Consent

For studies involving human subjects, please indicate in the manuscript, in a section preceding the References, the following statement or an analogous statement that applies to your situation: “All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000. Informed consent was obtained from all patients for being included in the study.” If any identifying information about participants is included in the article, the following sentence should also be included: “Additional informed consent was obtained from all individuals for whom identifying information is included in this article.” If you have not included or cannot include this statement in your manuscript, please provide the reason or an alternative statement here and in the manuscript.:

Informed Consent Statement:

Animal Studies

For studies with animals, include the following sentence in the manuscript in a section of text preceding the References: “All institutional and national guidelines for the care and use of laboratory animals were followed.” If the authors did not carry out animal or human studies as part of their article they must include the following statement in the manuscript in a section of text preceding the References: “No animal or human studies were carried out by the authors .” If you have not included or cannot include one of these statements in your manuscript, please provide the reason or an alternative statement here and in the manuscript.

Animal Studies Statement

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