Editorial Policies and Ethical Considerations
The research on human subjects was approved by Institutional Review Board of School of Biological Sciences, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan and ethics committee of Persian Bayangene Research and Training Institute, Shiraz, University of Medical Sciences, Iran. All participants or the parents for minor children provided written informed consent. Animals were handled according to the protocol approved by the Bioethical Committee of School of Biological Sciences, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan and Bioethical Committee of Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.