Malik, Madiha Amin http://orcid.org/0009-0001-9663-423X
Saqib, Muhammad Arif Nadeem
Mientjes, Edwin
Acharya, Anushree
Alam, Muhammad Rizwan http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1578-5723
Wallaard, Ilse
Schrauwen, Isabelle
Bamshad, Michael J.
Santos-Cortez, Regie Lyn P. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9958-2535
Elgersma, Ype http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3758-1297
Leal, Suzanne M. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1231-8174
Ansar, Muhammad http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5891-7063
Funding for this research was provided by:
Higher Education Commission, Pakistan (NRPU 7099, IRSIP)
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R01 HD109342)
Article History
Received: 13 June 2023
Revised: 17 August 2023
Accepted: 27 September 2023
First Online: 11 October 2023
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: It is certified that the study was performed in accordance with the ethical standards of 1964 Helsinki Declaration. The study was conducted by obtaining ethical approval from Bio-Ethics Committee (BEC-562) of Faculty of Biological Sciences, Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan and Institutional Review Board (IRB), at Columbia University (IRB-AAAS3433), USA. Animal experiments were performed in accordance with European Commission Council Directive 2010/63/EU (CCD approval AVD101002017893) at Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands.