About the Authors

Mahmoud Ahmed

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Convergence Medical Sciences and Institute of Health Sciences, Gyeongsang National University, College of Medicine, Jinju, South Korea

Trang Huyen Lai

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Convergence Medical Sciences and Institute of Health Sciences, Gyeongsang National University, College of Medicine, Jinju, South Korea

Trang Minh Pham

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Convergence Medical Sciences and Institute of Health Sciences, Gyeongsang National University, College of Medicine, Jinju, South Korea

Sahib Zada

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Convergence Medical Sciences and Institute of Health Sciences, Gyeongsang National University, College of Medicine, Jinju, South Korea

Omar Elashkar

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Convergence Medical Sciences and Institute of Health Sciences, Gyeongsang National University, College of Medicine, Jinju, South Korea

Jin Seok Hwang

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Convergence Medical Sciences and Institute of Health Sciences, Gyeongsang National University, College of Medicine, Jinju, South Korea

Deok Ryong Kim

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

drkim@gnu.ac.kr

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Convergence Medical Sciences and Institute of Health Sciences, Gyeongsang National University, College of Medicine, Jinju, South Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.