Footnotes

• Funding This study was financed by the Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, India.

• Competing interests None.

• Contributors: ARB and AM wrote the letter. ARB performed the in vitro experiments under the supervision of AM. AG contributed in the formulations of tablet under the guidance of GPT. All co-authors made inputs, reviewed and finally approved this letter.

• Provenance and Peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.