Article History
Received: 21 August 2025
Revised: 5 December 2025
Accepted: 18 December 2025
First Online: 3 January 2026
Compliance with ethical standards
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: This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Dongguan Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Written informed consent was obtained from all participants at the time of recruitment and all experiments involving human tissue specimens complied with the Declaration of Helsinki . Animal studies were performed in compliance with the ARRIVE guidelines.
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