About the Authors

Abhijit Chandra

Affiliation Department of Surgical Gastroenterology, Erstwhile KG Medical College, CSM Medical University, Lucknow, India

Ritesh Kumar Srivastava

Affiliations Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, Lucknow, India, Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, New Delhi, India

Mahendra Pratap Kashyap

Affiliations Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, Lucknow, India, Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, New Delhi, India

Raj Kumar

Affiliation Department of Basic Sciences, The Commonwealth Medical College, Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Rajeshwar Nath Srivastava

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Erstwhile KG Medical College, CSM Medical University, Lucknow, India

Aditya Bhushan Pant

abpant@rediffmail.com

Affiliation Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, Lucknow, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AC ABP. Performed the experiments: AC RKS MPK ABP. Analyzed the data: AC RKS MPK RK RNS ABP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AC ABP. Wrote the paper: AC RKS MPK RK ABP.