Batchu, Uma Rajeswari
Reddi, Bharati
Surapaneni, Joshna Rani
Jangam, Aruna
Misra, Sunil
Addlagatta, Anthony
Reddy Shetty, Prakasham https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8015-1751
Funding for this research was provided by:
CSIR EMERITUS SCHEME (21(1102)/20/EMR-II)
Article History
Received: 9 July 2025
Accepted: 26 November 2025
First Online: 13 December 2025
Declarations
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: Authors declare no financial and non-financial competing interests for the present work.
: All animal experiments were conducted in accordance with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Guidelines for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals. Ethical approval was obtained from the Institutional Animal Ethics Committee (IAEC) of the CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT), under protocol numbers IICT-IAEC-027-2021 and IICT-IAEC-028-2021. The study design, animal care, and reporting comply with the ARRIVE 2.0 guidelines to ensure transparency, reproducibility, and animal welfare.
: Not applicable.
: All the research was carried out within an appropriate animal ethical framework.