We are grateful to Professor Abdu Adem for facilitating the use of the central facilities of the Pharmacology Department, College of Medical and Health Science, United Arab Emirates University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Author contributions
HN: Investigation, Supervision, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Data curation, Writing—original draft, Writing—review & editing. PY: Methodology, Data curation, Software, Validation, Writing—review & editing. JAG and RLJ: Resources, Methodology. RS: Investigation, Project administration, Methodology, Formal analysis, Data curation, Writing—original draft, Writing—review & editing.
Conflicts of interest
The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
Ethical approval
All experimental animal procedures were approved by Animal Ethics Committee of United Arab Emirates University (UAEU-ERA_2016_4247) and are in accordance with the ARRIVE guidelines.
Consent to participate
Not applicable.
Consent to publication
Not applicable.
Availability of data and materials
The datasets that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.
Funding
This work was funded by a research grant from the Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Award for Medical Sciences [MRG-66/2015-2016]. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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