Liu, Shiwei
Gao, Xueying
Ye, Xuan
Chen, Yi
Wang, Kai
Liu, Yangsui
Wang, Sanmei
Shen, Haorui
Shen, Hongyu
Li, Ran
Qu, Xiaoyan
Fan, Lei
Funding for this research was provided by:
The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University (2025BSH041)
Xuzhou Health Commission (2018TD005)
Beijing Xisike Clinical Oncology Research Foundation (Y-SYBLD2022RWR-0013)
Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (BK20232039)
National Natural Science Foundation of China (82470186)
Article History
Received: 6 December 2025
Accepted: 29 April 2026
First Online: 3 May 2026
Declarations
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: BALB/c nude mice (GemPharmatech Co., Ltd, China) were housed in a specific pathogen-free environment of Nanjing Medical University (Nanjing, China). All operations involving live mice were conducted in accordance with established ethical guidelines of the National Institutes of Health Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals. The present study has been approved by the Animal Core Facility of Nanjing Medical University (approval numbers IACUC-2509074). The maximal tumor size permitted by our institutional ethics committee guidelines is 20 mm in diameter. We confirm that the maximal tumor size/burden as outlined by our ethics committee was not exceeded at any point during the study.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.