Govindappa, Prem Kumar https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8069-234X
Ellur, Govindaraj https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9551-4554
Hegarty, John P.
Gupta, Akash https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7305-055X
V. G, Rahul
Elfar, John C. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4438-7118
Funding for this research was provided by:
Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (K08 AR060164-01 A)
U.S. Department of Defense (W81XWH-16-1-0725)
Article History
Received: 30 January 2025
Revised: 27 May 2025
Accepted: 23 June 2025
First Online: 3 July 2025
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: Our manuscript does not contain any human data. Experimental design and animal protocols were approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) at The University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, AZ, and The Penn State University, Hershey, PA, USA. All experiments were conducted following the approved guidelines and regulations.