Shadgan, Babak
Amani Tehrani, Iman
Khosravi, Sadra
Askari, Zahra
Pirhadi Rad, Amir Parham
Bashashati, Ali
Funding for this research was provided by:
Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (13704264)
Article History
Received: 19 August 2025
Accepted: 17 February 2026
First Online: 24 February 2026
Declarations
:
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: This study was performed in line with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki. Approval was granted by the Clinical Research Ethics Board of the University of British Columbia (2024 - #H24-00312-A004) and the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC) Office of Human and Animal Research Oversight (OHARO) (2024 - #E04773.1a).
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
: The authors affirm that a human research participant provided informed consent for publication of the images in Fig. .