Amaechi, Bennett Tochukwu http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5097-4466
Phillips, Thais Santiago
Perozo, Betty Isabel
Kataoka, Yuko
Movaghari Pour, Fatemeh
Farah, Rayane http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4652-7660
Obiefuna, Amos Chinedu
Farokhi, Moshtagh Rashid http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7461-6033
Article History
Received: 11 December 2022
Revised: 7 February 2023
Accepted: 8 February 2023
First Online: 20 March 2023
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: Informed consent was obtained from all subjects involved in the study.
: This clinical study was conducted in accordance with the ethical standards outlined in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments, and in compliance with International Conference on Harmonization (ICH) Good Clinical Practice Guidelines. It was approved by the Institutional Review Board of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (Approval #: 20210608HU).