Kinattingal, Nabeel https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2248-3408
Bovilla, Venugopal https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7244-9817
Mehdi, Seema https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3212-0774
Kuruburu, Mahadevaswamy G. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8911-4626
Nandakumar, K. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6653-4660
Manjula, Santhepete N. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1999-5020
Funding for this research was provided by:
JSS Academy of Higher Education and Research, Mysore
Article History
Received: 26 December 2025
Accepted: 8 April 2026
First Online: 28 May 2026
Declarations
:
: The author declares no conflict of interest.
: The Institutional Animal Ethics Committee (IAEC) approval was obtained before the commencement of the study (Approval numbers: 198/2016 & 251/2017). All animal experiments were performed in accordance with the guidelines of the Committee for the Purpose of Control and Supervision of Experiments on Animals (CPCSEA), Government of India.