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Data source and availability
The data presented is original and obtained in our laboratory. It is available with the authors and can be made
available if required.

Financial support and sponsorship
This work was supported by the Department of Science and Technology (Innovation in Science Pursuit for
Inspired Research-INSPIRE Program) (IF110576).

Conflicts of interest
The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.

Patient consent
Not applicable.

Ethics approval
All the experimental studies were performed in accordance with the Indian National Science Academy
Guidelines for the use and care of experimental animals and were initially approved by the Institutional
Animal Ethics Committee (IAEC), Panjab University, Chandigarh (IAEC/284-295 at Sr. No. 47).

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