Ishrat, Urooj
Khan, Sadaf
Baig, Mirza Saifullah
Fleming, Joy
Bi, Lijun
Ali, Shaukat
Funding for this research was provided by:
International Partnership Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (153311KYSB20170001)
Article History
Received: 8 February 2025
Accepted: 18 August 2025
First Online: 14 October 2025
Declarations
:
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The study was carried out after taking ethical approval from Institutional Review Board, Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS), Karachi, Pakistan (IRB-1364/DUHS/Approval/2019/), and all methods were performed in accordance with the applicable guidelines and regulations.