About the Authors

Rahul Kumar

Affiliations Food, Drug and Chemical Toxicology Group, CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research (CSIR-IITR), Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India, Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Science, Jamia Hamdard (Hamdard University), New Delhi, India

Kausar M. Ansari

mditrc@rediffmail.com (MD); kmansari@iitr.res.in (KMA)

Affiliation Food, Drug and Chemical Toxicology Group, CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research (CSIR-IITR), Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

Bhushan P. Chaudhari

Affiliation Pathology Laboratory, CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research (CSIR-IITR), Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

Alok Dhawan

Affiliation Nanotoxicology Group, CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research (CSIR-IITR), Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

Premendra D. Dwivedi

Affiliation Food, Drug and Chemical Toxicology Group, CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research (CSIR-IITR), Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

Swatantra K. Jain

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Science, Jamia Hamdard (Hamdard University), New Delhi, India

Mukul Das

mditrc@rediffmail.com (MD); kmansari@iitr.res.in (KMA)

Affiliation Food, Drug and Chemical Toxicology Group, CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research (CSIR-IITR), Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RK KMA SKJ MD. Performed the experiments: RK BPC. Analyzed the data: RK KMA MD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PDD AD. Wrote the paper: RK KMA MD.