About the Authors

Sharmila V. Jalgaonkar

sharmila_jalgaonkar@rediffmail.com

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics, Seth GS Medical College & KEM Hospital, Parel, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Shruti S. Bhide

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics, Seth GS Medical College & KEM Hospital, Parel, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Raakhi K. Tripathi

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics, Seth GS Medical College & KEM Hospital, Parel, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Yashashri C. Shetty

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics, Seth GS Medical College & KEM Hospital, Parel, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Padmaja A. Marathe

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics, Seth GS Medical College & KEM Hospital, Parel, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Janhavi Katkar

Affiliation Institutional Ethics Committee, Seth GS Medical College & KEM Hospital, Parel, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Urmila M. Thatte

Affiliation Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Seth GS Medical College & KEM Hospital, Parel, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SVJ SSB UMT. Performed the experiments: SVJ SSB RKT YCS JK. Analyzed the data: SVJ SSB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SVJ SSB JK. Wrote the paper: SVJ SSB RKT YCS PAM JK UMT.