Statistical analysis
The comparisons made involving two groups were made using the Student’s t-test. ANOVA was used to comparing data of multiple groups, and post hoc analysis was done using Tukey’s multiple comparisons test. Kaplan-Meier estimator was used to estimate survival distributions. P values scoring less than 0.05 were deemed significant. GraphPad Prism (Prism Version 8.0.2; Graph Pad Prism Software Inc., San Diego, USA) was used for all the statistical analyses.