Article History
Received: 26 September 2020
Accepted: 28 December 2020
First Online: 10 February 2021
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Experiments on animals were approved by the Institutional Ethics Committee (Animal models) of NEHU, Shillong (Vide, Member Secretary, IEC, NEHU, dated December 4, 2014, approval number 01) and all the procedures performed were part of the routine care. All experiments on animals comply with ARRIVE guidelines and have been carried out in accordance with the U.K. Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act, 1986 and associated guidelines (EU Directive 2010/63/EU for animal experiments). Also, the animal experiments complied with the ARRIVE guidelines. All the animals were procured from Pasteur Institute, Polo, Shillong, Meghalaya. Pasteur Institute was made aware and consented to the use of animals for this study.
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.