Kaushik, Neha
Rastogi, Soumya
Jain, Vaibhav
Verma, Sonia
Pandey, Deepak
Sharma, Mona
Halder, Ashutosh
Gregory, Simon
Kumar, Neeraj https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0906-4559
Funding for this research was provided by:
Indian Council of Medical Research (5/10/FR/57/2020-RBMCH)
All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (A-1032)
Article History
Received: 24 September 2025
Accepted: 10 July 2026
First Online: 22 July 2026
Declarations
Ethics approval and consent to participate: The study was approved by the Institute Ethics Committee of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi (Ref No. IEC-120/06.02.2020, dated 09/03/2020). Ethical approval was obtained as part of the institutional protocol, although specific consent to participate was not needed, as the research involved a model organism, which is exempt from human ethical review requirements.
Consent for publication: Not applicable.
Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.