Atasoy, Bahar https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5393-5876
Balsak, Serdar https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8765-4418
Alkan, Alpay https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3002-1641
Donmez, Zeynep https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0030-3250
Smith, Lee
Yabul, Fatma Çelik
Toluk, Ozlem https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6495-0839
Altintas, Fazilhan https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8010-4077
Basak Polat, Yagmur https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1410-7303
Soysal, Pinar https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6042-1718
Article History
Received: 5 May 2025
Accepted: 28 July 2025
First Online: 4 September 2025
Declarations
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: B. Atasoy, S. Balsak, A. Alkan, Z. Donmez, L. Smith, F.Ç. Yabul, O. Toluk, F. Altintas, Y. Basak Polat and P. Soysal declare that they have no competing interests.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants or on human tissue were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1975 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The study was approved by the ethical review board’s Ethics in Research Committee of Bezmialem Vakıf University (E-54022451-050.04-162440). Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
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