Article History
Received: 20 September 2025
Accepted: 18 January 2026
First Online: 18 February 2026
Declarations
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: The authors declare that there is no financial and authorship conflict of interest.
: The rearing and use of rats were in accordance with the NIH publication Guide for the care and use of laboratory animals (NRC 2004) and with the animal study approval of the Institutional Review Board of ASAB, NUST (IRB no. 10-2023-04/04) (Available on demand), and guidelines of ASAB Laboratory of Animal House (LAH), regarding the care and use of laboratory animals.
: Not Applicable.
: Statement about this is also added in the manuscript section of Ethical Approval of Study and Experiments.
: Not Applicable.