Animals
All experiments were conducted in accordance with the Australian Code of
Practice for the Care of Experimental Animals, the ARRIVE Guidelines and
with RMIT University Animal Ethics Committee approval (Animal Ethics
Application Number 1521). 7-week-old male Balb/c mice
(~20g body weight) were obtained from the Animal
Resource Centre Pty. Ltd (Perth, Australia). Mice were housed in
micro-isolator cages (Able Scientific, Australia) at 21°C with ad
libitum access to water and standard mouse chow (Glen Forest Speciality
Foods, Australia).