About the Authors

Amol B. Tayade

Affiliation Defence Institute of High Altitude Research, Defence Research & Development Organisation, Leh-Ladakh, Jammu & Kashmir, India

Priyanka Dhar

Affiliation Defence Institute of High Altitude Research, Defence Research & Development Organisation, Leh-Ladakh, Jammu & Kashmir, India

Jatinder Kumar

Affiliation Defence Institute of High Altitude Research, Defence Research & Development Organisation, Leh-Ladakh, Jammu & Kashmir, India

Manu Sharma

Affiliation Department of Pharmacy, Jaypee University of Information Technology, Waknaghat, Solan, India

Rajinder S. Chauhan

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology & Bioinformatics, Jaypee University of Information Technology, Waknaghat, Solan, India

Om P. Chaurasia

dropchaurasiadihardrdo@gmail.com

Affiliation Defence Institute of High Altitude Research, Defence Research & Development Organisation, Leh-Ladakh, Jammu & Kashmir, India

Ravi B. Srivastava

Affiliation Defence Institute of High Altitude Research, Defence Research & Development Organisation, Leh-Ladakh, Jammu & Kashmir, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Concise review of manuscript: MS RSC RBS. Conceived and designed the experiments: ABT PD JK MS RSC OPC RBS. Performed the experiments: ABT PD JK. Analyzed the data: ABT PD MS OPC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ABT PD JK. Wrote the paper: ABT PD OPC.