About the Authors

Chamila Mettananda

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

chamila@kln.ac.lk

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology, University of Kelaniya, Ragama, Sri Lanka, Professorial Medical Unit, North Colombo Teaching Hospital, Ragama, Sri Lanka

Chamila Ranawaka

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, North Colombo Teaching Hospital, Ragama, Sri Lanka

Thimira Egodage

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

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, University of Kelaniya, Ragama, Sri Lanka

Channaka Dantanarayana

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

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, University of Kelaniya, Ragama, Sri Lanka

Rumal Fernando

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

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, University of Kelaniya, Ragama, Sri Lanka

Lakmali Ranaweera

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, North Colombo Teaching Hospital, Ragama, Sri Lanka

Dulani Kottahachchi

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Physiology, University of Kelaniya, Ragama, Sri Lanka

Shirom Siriwardhana

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, University of Kelaniya, Ragama, Sri Lanka

Arunasalam Pathmeswaran

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

Affiliation Department of Public Health, University of Kelaniya, Ragama, Sri Lanka

Anuradha Dassanayake

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology, University of Kelaniya, Ragama, Sri Lanka, Professorial Medical Unit, North Colombo Teaching Hospital, Ragama, Sri Lanka

Janaka de Silva

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Professorial Medical Unit, North Colombo Teaching Hospital, Ragama, Sri Lanka, Department of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Ragama, Sri Lanka

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.