Mazique, Jena’ N.
Sit, Caroline
Riley, Raven
Oporto, Zelma Iriarte
Mcneill, Ian
Chen, Tianwen
Warren, James
Huang, David
Xu, Youguo
Frisbie, Austin
Walters, Bradley
Pang, Yi
Zhou, Wu
Zhu, Hong https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3944-4624
Funding for this research was provided by:
NIDCD (R01DC018919)
NIGMS (1P20GM156708-01)
Article History
Received: 29 September 2025
Accepted: 17 February 2026
First Online: 11 March 2026
Declarations
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: All procedures used in this study were approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee at the University of Mississippi Medical Center and were in strict accordance with the National Institutes of Health Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals. All animal experiments and reporting were conducted in accordance with the ARRIVE (Animal Research: Reporting of In Vivo Experiments) guidelines.
: The authors declare no competing interests.