Wang, Xin
Meng, Lingjiao
Wang, Qiuhong
Rong, Ruixue
Zhang, Yu
Zhao, Xiaohui
Liang, Chen
Guo, Huizhen
Deng, Li
Tan, Zengqi
Guan, Feng
Tan, Yi
Funding for this research was provided by:
Science and Technology SMEs Innovation Capacity Improvement Project of Shandong Province (No. 2022TSGC1004)
China National Key R and D Program during the 14th Five-year Plan Period (No. 2021YFA1101500)
Article History
Received: 29 April 2025
Accepted: 29 August 2025
First Online: 24 September 2025
Declarations
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: All procedures performed in this study involving human samples were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research committee and with the guidelines set by the Declaration of Helsinki. Human umbilical cords were harvested with written informed consent from the donor and were approved by the Stem Cell Clinical Research Institution Ethics Committee of Yantai Yuhuangding Hospital ([2021]003). All mouse experiments were performed in accordance with the Basel Declaration and approved by the Animal Care and Use Committee of Northwest University (approval number: NWU-AWC-20211201 M, 4 December 2021) and were performed under ARRIVE (Animal Research: Reporting of in vivo Experiments) guidelines.
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: The authors declare no competing interests.
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