About the Authors

Mahendra Pratap Kashyap

Affiliations Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, Lucknow, India, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi, India

Abhishek Kumar Singh

Affiliations Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, Lucknow, India, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi, India

Vivek Kumar

Affiliations Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, Lucknow, India, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi, India

Vinay Kumar Tripathi

Affiliations Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, Lucknow, India, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi, India

Ritesh Kumar Srivastava

Affiliations Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, Lucknow, India, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi, India

Megha Agrawal

Affiliations Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, Lucknow, India, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi, India

Vinay Kumar Khanna

Affiliations Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, Lucknow, India, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi, India

Sanjay Yadav

Affiliations Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, Lucknow, India, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi, India

Swatantra Kumar Jain

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Jamia Hamdard University, New Delhi, India

Aditya Bhushan Pant

abpant@rediffmail.com

Affiliations Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, Lucknow, India, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MPK ABP. Performed the experiments: MPK AKS VK VKT RKS MA SY ABP. Analyzed the data: MPK ABP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MPK AKS VK VKT RKS SY VKK SKJ ABP. Wrote the paper: MPK ABP.