Luis Duarte Madeira

Abstract The increasing prevalence of mental health disorders has been matched with growing psychotropic drug consumption rates around the world. Assessing psychopharmacoepidemiological trends and their determinants is essential to guide medical care delivery and public health policies. However, nation-wide studies on up-to-date consumption patterns are scarce and generally disregard relevant pharmacological, medical, socio-demographic, and economic covariates.

Foshan University’s ethics committee adopted and accepted the ethical principles for animal regulations (FOSU-03-2020) in March 2020, as stated in the Regulation of Experimental Animal Management of the People’s Republic of China, No. 2, 1988. The chicks were anesthetized with sodium pentobarbital (30 mg/kg body weight) intravenously within 2 min after being removed from their chicken house at the end of the study (7 dpi and 10 dpi).

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