Shi, Shan
Zhou, Jiao
Luo, Qiuyun
Chen, Hongtao
Yang, Jing
Yang, Liqiong
Zhang, Lin
Zhang, Hongyu
Yang, Dajun
Article History
Received: 1 April 2025
Accepted: 4 August 2025
First Online: 8 December 2025
Compliance with ethics guidelines
: Conflicts of interest Shan Shi, Jiao Zhou, Qiuyun Luo, Hongtao Chen, Jing Yang, Liqiong Yang, Lin Zhang, Hongyu Zhang, and Dajun Yang declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: The in vivo animal experiments were approved by animal experimentation ethics and carried out under the guidance of the Sun Yat-Sen University Committee for Use and Care of Laboratory Animals (Approval number: 2022001130). All institutional and national guidelines for the care and use of laboratory animals were followed. The tissue sections of these patients were obtained from the Department of Pathology of the fifth affiliated hospital of Sun Yat-sen University. This study acquired the approval of the Ethics Committee of the fifth affiliated hospital of Sun Yat-sen University before specimen collection. Written informed consent was obtained from all the patients before surgery. Additional informed consent was obtained from all patients for which identifying information is included in this article.