**Author details**

Żaneta Dzięgelewska and Małgorzata Gajewska\*

\*Address all correspondence to: malgorzata\_gajewska@sggw.pl

Department of Physiological Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

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