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.