*2.1. Animal Procedures*

All experiments were approved (#2014-7549) by the Research Ethics Board of the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC-RI) and are in accordance with the principles outlined by the Canadian Council of Animal Care. Three-week-old male wild-type C57BL/6J mice (Charles River Laboratories, Saint-Constant, QC, Canada) were used for our experiments. All mice were group-housed under a standard 12:12 h light/dark cycle with food and water available ad libitum.
