Kiruba, Godwin Alex
Zachariah, Thomas https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6516-3888
Article History
Received: 2 October 2025
Accepted: 18 February 2026
First Online: 14 March 2026
Declarations
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest or competing interests.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of the University as per protocol number MADC/IRB-XV/2021/297. The procedures used in this study adhere to the tenets of the Declaration of Helsinki. This article does not contain any studies with animals performed by any of the authors.
: The authors affirm that human research participants provided informed consent for publication of the images in Figs. 1a-f, 2a-f and 3a-f, and 4a-f.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.