About the Authors

Anroop B. Nair

Contributed equally to this work with: Anroop B. Nair, Jigar Shah

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

anair@kfu.edu.sa

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Clinical Pharmacy, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia

Jigar Shah

Contributed equally to this work with: Anroop B. Nair, Jigar Shah

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

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutics, Institute of Pharmacy, Nirma University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

Shery Jacob

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

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Gulf Medical University, Ajman, United Arab Emirates

Bandar E. Al-Dhubiab

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Clinical Pharmacy, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia

Nagaraja Sreeharsha

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Clinical Pharmacy, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia, Department of Pharmaceutics, Vidya Siri College of Pharmacy, Bangalore, India

Mohamed A. Morsy

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Clinical Pharmacy, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology, Minia University, El-Minia, Egypt

Sumeet Gupta

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

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, M. M. College of Pharmacy, Maharishi Markandeshwar (Deemed to be University), Mullana, India

Mahesh Attimarad

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Clinical Pharmacy, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia

Pottathil Shinu

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

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Clinical Pharmacy, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia

Katharigatta N. Venugopala

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Clinical Pharmacy, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia, Department of Biotechnology and Food Technology, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa

Competing Interests

Some chemicals were provided by Zydus Cadila, Ahmedabad, India, Torrent Pharma, Ahmedabad, India and Colorcon Limited, Dartford, England for the present study and the authors declare that this does not alter their adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. None of the industries have any role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.