Wang, Xiaoyang
Liu, Fengjin
Tian, Wenxia
Chao, Xueming
Li, Yun
Deng, Lin
Sui, Shuaichao
Gao, Meiling
Funding for this research was provided by:
Suzhou Youth Fund for Basic Research Projects (SSD2025072)
Natural Science Foundation of the First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University (BXQN2024038)
Article History
Received: 22 December 2025
Accepted: 13 March 2026
First Online: 17 March 2026
Declarations
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: All animal experimental procedures were approved by the Laboratory Animal Center of Suzhou Medical College, Soochow University and Use Committee (approval number: 202504A0043). Experiments involved the housing and sacrifice of female C57BL/6 N mice (6–8 weeks old, 18–22 g) for collection of immune organs and tissues for molecular analysis. All procedures were conducted in strict accordance with the Basel Declaration for ethical animal research (https://animalresearchtomorrow.org/en). All efforts were made to minimize animal suffering and reduce the number of animals used. Not applicable. For publicly available datasets (TCGA, GEO), appropriate data use agreements and ethical approvals were already in place by the original data generators.
: All authors have reviewed and approved the final manuscript for publication. No individual patient data requiring specific consent for publication are included in this study.
: Not applicable. This study did not involve clinical patients or biological samples.
: The authors declare no competing interests.