About the Authors

Sarita Nehra

Affiliation Experimental Biology Division, Department of Experimental Biology, Defence Institute of Physiology and Allied Science, Defence Research and Development Organization, Timarpur, New Delhi, India

Varun Bhardwaj

Affiliation Experimental Biology Division, Department of Experimental Biology, Defence Institute of Physiology and Allied Science, Defence Research and Development Organization, Timarpur, New Delhi, India

Lilly Ganju

Affiliation Experimental Biology Division, Department of Experimental Biology, Defence Institute of Physiology and Allied Science, Defence Research and Development Organization, Timarpur, New Delhi, India

Deepika Saraswat

deepika_saras@yahoo.com

Affiliation Experimental Biology Division, Department of Experimental Biology, Defence Institute of Physiology and Allied Science, Defence Research and Development Organization, Timarpur, New Delhi, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SN DS. Performed the experiments: SN VB. Analyzed the data: SN DS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DS LG. Wrote the paper: SN VB DS.