Cinnamomum cassia exhibits antileishmanial activity against Leishmania donovani infection in vitro and in vivo

• Farhat Afrin ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Farhat Afrin, Garima Chouhan

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: farhatafrin@gmail.com, faislam@taibahu.edu.sa (FA); hhamag@taibahu.edu.sa (HAH)

  Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Technology, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, Taibah University, Madinah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4443-4284

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• Garima Chouhan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Farhat Afrin, Garima Chouhan

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Current address: Department of Biotechnology, School of Engineering and Technology, Sharda University, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

  Affiliation Parasite Immunology Laboratory, Department of Biotechnology, Jamia Hamdard (Hamdard University), New Delhi, India

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• Mohammad Islamuddin,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology

  Current address: Molecular Virology Laboratory, Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Basic Sciences, S. Ramanujan Block, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India

  Affiliation Parasite Immunology Laboratory, Department of Biotechnology, Jamia Hamdard (Hamdard University), New Delhi, India

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• Muzamil Y. Want,

  Roles Investigation

  Current address: Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

  Affiliation Parasite Immunology Laboratory, Department of Biotechnology, Jamia Hamdard (Hamdard University), New Delhi, India

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• Hani A. Ozbak,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Technology, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, Taibah University, Madinah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia

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• Hassan A. Hemeg

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: farhatafrin@gmail.com, faislam@taibahu.edu.sa (FA); hhamag@taibahu.edu.sa (HAH)

  Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Technology, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, Taibah University, Madinah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia

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