Open access and copyright

Journal of Applied Biomedicine is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author, provided the original work is properly attributed. This is in accordance with the BOAI (Budapest Open Access Initiative) definition of open access. We adhere to the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives Licence (CC BY-NC-ND). Copyright on the article is retained by the authors. The authors grant the publisher the right to publish the work.