Le, Xin
Fan, Youfen
Xu, Sida
Li, Jiliang
Cui, Shengyong
Jin, Guoying
Huang, Neng
Yu, Yaohua
Xu, Pei
Funding for this research was provided by:
Medical Scientific Research Foundation of Zhejiang Province (No. 2021KY1004, No. 2022KY1134, No. 2023RC081, No. 2025KY1395, No. 2025KY1443)
Ningbo Health Youth Technical Backbone Talent Development Program (No. 2024RC-QN-02, No. 2025QNJS-12, No. 2025JSPT-32)
Ningbo Top Medical and Health Research Program (2023030615)
Medical and Health Science Program of Zhejiang Province (2025HY0993)
Ningbo Research Center for Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Culture, a Key Cultural Research Base of Ningbo City
Scientific Research Fund of Zhejiang Provincial Education Department (No. Y202148025, No. Y202456684)
Zhejiang Clinovation Pride (CXTD202502004)
HwaMei Research Foundation of Ningbo No.2 Hospital (No. 2022HMKY48, No. 2023HMZD07)
Project of NINGBO Leading Medical & Health Discipline (2022-F17)
Zhu Xiu Shan Talent Project of Ningbo No.2 Hospital (No. 2023HMYQ25)
Research and development of efficient hemostatic materials (2024001)
Article History
Received: 15 April 2026
Revised: 27 August 2026
Accepted: 3 September 2026
First Online: 19 September 2026
Declarations
Conflict of interest: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
Ethical approval: All studies included in the present analysis were approved by the respective local research ethics committees or Institutional Review Boards. Specifically, the collection of human clinical samples and data from sepsis patients and healthy controls was approved by the Ethics Committee of Ningbo No. 2 Hospital (Approval No.: PJ-NBEY-KY-2026-215-01). Written informed consent was obtained from all participants in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.