Gu, Xiaolian
Coates, Philip J.
Wang, Lixiao
Sgaramella, Nicola
Magan, Mustafa
Nylander, Karin
Funding for this research was provided by:
Umea University
Article History
Received: 28 July 2025
Accepted: 8 April 2026
First Online: 18 April 2026
Declarations
:
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: This study was approved by the Regional Ethics Review Board, Umeå, Sweden (Dnr 08-003 M, 2012-131-33 M and 2024-00725-02) and performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. Written informed consent to participate was obtained from all study subjects.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.