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Abstract (original English)

The Editor-in-Chief and the publisher have retracted this article [1]. An investigation by the Lithuanian Bioethics Committee concluded that, contrary to the statements in the article, the study described was not conducted in the Vilnius City Clinical Hospital and the Commission of Medical Ethics did not issue any approval for such a study.

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Evidence from laboratory and animal studies provides groundwork for understanding mechanisms and potential before human studies continue.

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