Zhang, Chen
Zhou, Wenxin
Xu, Hai
Xu, Jiali
Li, Jun
Liu, Xinyin
Lu, Xiyi
Dai, Jiali
Jiang, Yuqin
Wang, Wei https://orcid.org/0009-0009-1549-5855
Zhang, Erbao https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5752-7976
Guo, Renhua https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9778-1357
Article History
Received: 22 September 2024
Revised: 20 January 2025
Accepted: 18 February 2025
First Online: 26 February 2025
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University (2023-SR-056). All patients provided written informed consent for participation according to the Declaration of Helsinki and written informed consent for publication. Clinical information was obtained from the medical records. The animal experiments in this study were approved by the Experimental Animal Welfare Ethics Committee of Nanjing Medical University (IACUC-2301010). All in vivo operations were performed in accordance with the Guidelines for Experimental Animal Welfare Ethics Committee of Nanjing Medical University and the National Institute of Health Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals.