About the Authors

Yunierkis Perez-Castillo

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

yunierkis@gmail.com (YPC); hpham.phd@gmail.com (HPT)

Affiliation Escuela de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas, Universidad de Las Américas, Quito, Ecuador

Aminael Sánchez-Rodríguez

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Loja, Ecuador

Eduardo Tejera

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Facultad de Ingenieria y Ciencias Agropecuarias, Universidad de Las Américas, Quito, Ecuador

Maykel Cruz-Monteagudo

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations CIQUP/Departamento de Química e Bioquímica, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal, REQUIMTE/Departamento de Química e Bioquímica, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal, Department of General Education, West Coast University—Miami Campus, Doral, Florida, United States of America

Fernanda Borges

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation CIQUP/Departamento de Química e Bioquímica, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

M. Natália D. S. Cordeiro

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation REQUIMTE/Departamento de Química e Bioquímica, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

Huong Le-Thi-Thu

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation VNU School of Medicine and Pharmacy, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam

Hai Pham-The

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

yunierkis@gmail.com (YPC); hpham.phd@gmail.com (HPT)

Affiliation Hanoi University of Pharmacy, Hanoi, Vietnam

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.