Funding for this research was provided by:
Higher Education Commission, Pakistan (Ref. No. 5740/Sindh/NRPU/R&D/HEC/2016)
International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences (Recurring Grant)
Article History
Received: 30 September 2020
Accepted: 22 April 2021
First Online: 9 May 2021
Declarations
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest<b>.</b>
: All procedures performed in the study involving human participants were per the ethical standards of the Independent Ethics Committee (IEC) of the ICCBS and Advanced Studies and Research Board (ASRB) of the University of Karachi, Pakistan, and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The study was approved by the IEC of the ICCBS and ASRB of the University of Karachi.
: Written informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.