About the Authors

Swapnil Borse

Contributed equally to this work with: Swapnil Borse, Manali Joshi, Akash Saggam, Vedika Bhat

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

Affiliation AYUSH-Center of Excellence, Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, Interdisciplinary School of Health Sciences, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, India

Manali Joshi

Contributed equally to this work with: Swapnil Borse, Manali Joshi, Akash Saggam, Vedika Bhat

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

chavanpriti@gmail.com (PCG); manalijoshi@unipune.ac.in (MJ)

Affiliation Bioinformatics Centre, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, India

Akash Saggam

Contributed equally to this work with: Swapnil Borse, Manali Joshi, Akash Saggam, Vedika Bhat

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations AYUSH-Center of Excellence, Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, Interdisciplinary School of Health Sciences, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, India, Serum Institute of India Pvt. Ltd., Pune, Maharashtra, India

Vedika Bhat

Contributed equally to this work with: Swapnil Borse, Manali Joshi, Akash Saggam, Vedika Bhat

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation AYUSH-Center of Excellence, Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, Interdisciplinary School of Health Sciences, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, India

Safal Walia

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Bioinformatics Centre, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, India

Aniket Marathe

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

Affiliation Bioinformatics Centre, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, India

Sneha Sagar

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, L. J. Institute of Pharmacy, Sarkhej, Ahmedabad, India

Preeti Chavan-Gautam

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

chavanpriti@gmail.com (PCG); manalijoshi@unipune.ac.in (MJ)

Affiliation AYUSH-Center of Excellence, Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, Interdisciplinary School of Health Sciences, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, India

Aboli Girme

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Pharmanza Herbal Pvt. Ltd., Anand, Gujarat, India

Lal Hingorani

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Pharmanza Herbal Pvt. Ltd., Anand, Gujarat, India

Girish Tillu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation AYUSH-Center of Excellence, Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, Interdisciplinary School of Health Sciences, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, India

Competing Interests

Authors (AG and LH) are affiliated with Pharmanza Herbals Pvt. Ltd. The herbal extracts used in the study are a marketed product of Pharmanza Herbals Pvt. Ltd. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.