1. All articles must be strictly in line with institutional code of ethics and all potential areas of conflict of interest to be declared at time of submission

2. If the work involves the use of human subjects, the authors should ensure that the work described has been carried out in accordance with The Code of Ethics of the World Medical Association (Declaration of Helsinki) for all experiments involving humans. The manuscript should be in line with the Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals and aim for the inclusion of representative human populations (sex, age and ethnicity) as per those recommendations. The terms sex and gender should be used correctly.

3. Authors should include a statement in the manuscript that informed consent was obtained for experimentation involving human subjects. The privacy rights of human subjects must always be strictly observed.

4. All animal experiments should comply with the ARRIVE guidelines and should be carried out in accordance with the U.K. Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act, 1986 and associated guidelines, EU Directive 2010/63/EU for animal experiments, or the National Institutes of Health guide for the care and use of Laboratory animals (NIH Publications No. 8023, revised 1978) and the authors should clearly indicate in the manuscript that such guidelines have been stringently followed. The sex of animals must be indicated, and where appropriate, the influence (or association) of sex on the results of the study.

5. Informed consent:Investigations on human subjects must include a statement indicating that informed consent was obtained after the nature and possible consequences of the studies had been fully explained to the subjects.

6. Animal welfare:Authors using experimental animals must state that their care was in accordance with institutional guidelines. For animals subjected to invasive procedures, the anaesthetic, analgesic and tranquilizing agents used, as well as the amounts and frequency of administration, must be stated clearly.

7. Availability of Materials:Publication of an article in JABLM is taken to imply that the authors are prepared to freely distribute materials used in the published experiments (e.g. antibodies, cell lines, reagents, kits etc) to academic researchers for their own use.

Declaration of conflict of interest:

All authors must disclose any financial and personal relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately influence (bias) their work. Examples of potential conflicts of interest include employment, consultations, stock ownership, honoraria, paid expert testimony, patent applications/registrations, and grants or any other mode of funding. Authors should complete the declaration of interest statement using this template and upload to the submission system at the Attach/Upload Files step. If there are no interests to declare, authors should choose: ‘Declarations of interest: none’ in the template. This statement will be published within the article if accepted.