Khalid, Shakeela
Arshad, Muhammad
Siddque, Farzana
Arshad, Muhammad Sajid
Sajid, Marina
Khalid, Waseem
Aziz, Zaira
Khalid, Muhammad Zubair
Alharbi, Sulaiman Ali
Ansari, Mohammad Javed
Zinedine, Abdellah
Bartkiene, Elena
Rocha, João Miguel https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0936-2003
Funding for this research was provided by:
Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Article History
Received: 22 April 2024
Accepted: 1 July 2025
First Online: 1 August 2025
Declarations
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: All experimental procedures involving mice were approved by the Biosafety and Ethical Review Committee (BERC) at the University of Sargodha, Pakistan (Approval No. SU/ORIC/1802, dated 27 December 2022). All efforts were made to minimize the number of animals used and to reduce their suffering in accordance with ethical guidelines.
: The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.