About the Authors

Mohamed M. Elmazar

Affiliation British Universityin Cairo (BUE), Cairo, Egypt

Hanan S. El-Abhar

Hanabhar@yahoo.com

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

Mona F. Schaalan

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Misr International University (MIU), Cairo, Egypt

Nahla A. Farag

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Medicinal Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Misr International University (MIU), Cairo, Egypt

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MME HSE MFS NAF. Performed the experiments: MME HSE MFS NAF. Analyzed the data: MME HSE MFS NAF. Wrote the paper: HSE. Responsible for the experimentation of the research: MFS. Assessed the Biochemicals: MFS. Collected data: MFS. Performed the statistical analysis: MME. Interpreted data: MME. Illustrated figures: MME. Contributed to the interpretation of data: HSE. Drafted the article: HSE. Revised the article critically for important intellectual content: HSE. Gave final approval of the article version to be published: HSE. Responsible for the molecular docking studies using Molsoft, flexible docking program “Internal Coordinate Mechanics (Molsoft ICM 3.4-8C)”: NAF.