Gowda, B. Rudresh https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0801-1930
Prakash, N. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5947-0363
Santhosh, C. R. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8604-9598
Pavithra, B. H. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3913-2508
Rajashekaraiah, Rashmi https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6944-6025
Sathyanarayana, M. L. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9734-961X
Rao, Suguna https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2008-768X
Waghe, Prashantkumar https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1232-7735
Kumar, K. R. Anjan https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7744-3799
Shivaprasad, G. R. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1783-3757
Muralidhar, Y. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2189-590X
Article History
Received: 19 May 2021
Accepted: 19 June 2021
First Online: 30 July 2021
Declarations
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: Prior approval of the Institutional Animal Ethics Committee (IAEC) was obtained (No. VCH/IAEC/2019/125 dated 03/12/2019) to carry out the current investigation as per the guidelines of the Committee for Purpose of Control and Supervision of Experiments on Animals (CPCSEA), New Delhi. Experimental rats were housed in Small Animal House facility, Veterinary College, Hebbal, Bengaluru (Registration No. 493/GO/ReBiBt-S/Re-L/01/CPCSEA, New Delhi) in polypropylene cages and maintained under standard management practices including light: dark cycle of 12 h each.
: Consent to submit has been received from all co-authors and responsible authorities at the institute where the work has been carried out before the work is submitted. The corresponding author was given consent on behalf of all author for the publication.
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: Further, the article is the author’s original work, has not received prior publication and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere.