About the Authors

Niloofar Jaafari

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

Affiliations Department of Hematology and Blood Banking, Faculty of Allied Medicine, Iran University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran, Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Amir Asri Kojabad

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Hematology and Blood Banking, Faculty of Allied Medicine, Iran University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran

Rima Manafi Shabestari

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

Affiliation Department of Hematology and Blood Banking, Faculty of Allied Medicine, Iran University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran

Majid Safa

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

safa.m@iums.ac.ir, majidsafa@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Hematology and Blood Banking, Faculty of Allied Medicine, Iran University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.