Wang, Jintao
Ma, Zheng
Wan, Bin
Cui, Xinguang
Funding for this research was provided by:
the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 12172146)
State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine, University of Macau (Grant No. SKL2024K08)
Foundation for Innovative Research Groups of Hubei Province (NO. JCZRYB202500503)
Article History
Received: 29 June 2025
Accepted: 11 November 2025
First Online: 16 December 2025
Declarations
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: The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
: All animal experiments were conducted in strict accordance with the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals published by the National Research Council. The experimental protocol involving Sprague–Dawley (SD) rats, including tracheal instillation procedures, was reviewed and approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) of Huazhong University of Science and Technology (Approval No. [2025] IACUC Number: 4092).