Joshi, Prince
Shaham, Salique Hassan
Shivahare, Rahul
Yadav, Kanchan
Sharma, Anamika
Parul,
Shukla, Shubha
Tripathi, Renu
Funding for this research was provided by:
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India (MLP0101)
Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, India
University Grants Commission
Article History
Received: 7 September 2025
Revised: 25 December 2025
Accepted: 6 January 2026
First Online: 3 February 2026
Declarations
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: The authors declare no competing interests.
: This work was supported by the CSIR-CDRI’s in-house project (No. MLP0101). PJ and P wish to thank the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and SHS wishes to thank Department of Biotechnology (DBT), for their senior research fellowships. RS gratefully acknowledges the financial support from the DBT-RA Program in Biotechnology and Life Sciences. KY and AS are grateful to the University Grants Commission (UGC) for their senior research fellowships.
: The animal experiments were approved by the Committee for the Purpose of Control and Supervision of Experimentation on Animals (CPCSEA, Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India) through Institutional Animal Ethics Committee and were performed under standard conditions laid down by the authorities.
: Not applicable.