Keerthana, Chenicheri Kizhakkeveettil https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5910-6112
Rayginia, Tennyson P.
Kalimuthu, Kalishwaralal
Saha, Sandhini
Haritha, Nair H.
Nisthul Areekkara, Amrutha
Swetha, Mundanattu https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1381-2935
Aiswarya, Sreekumar U.
Nath, Lekshmi R.
Varma, Sanjay Suresh
Viswanathan, Arun
S, Jannet
J, Shirly
JS, Aparna
Praveen, Archana
Jaikumar, Vishnu Sunil
Sundaram, Sankar
Anto, Nikhil Ponnoor https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9449-5654
Maiti, Tushar K.
Sadasivan, C
Isakov, Noah
Lankalapalli, Ravi S.
Harikumar, Kuzhuvelil B. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1763-4179
Anto, Ruby John https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5856-0076
Funding for this research was provided by:
Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology
Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology
Article History
Received: 5 August 2025
Revised: 25 January 2026
Accepted: 9 March 2026
First Online: 16 April 2026
Conflict of interest
: The authors declare no competing interest.
: All the experimental methods employed in animal experiments were conducted in accordance with ARRIVE guidelines and institutional guidelines under the approval from Institutional Animal Ethics Committee, BRIC-Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology. (CPCSEA Number: 326/GO/ReBiBt/S/2001/CPCSEA). All the animal experiments carried out in this study have been approved by the Institutional Animal Ethics Committee (IAEC Approval No: IAEC/765/RUBY/2019 and IAEC/944/HARI/2023).