Park, Seok Soon https://orcid.org/0009-0001-6065-4845
Lee, Hye Won
Kwon, Mi Ri
Ju, Eun Jin
Shin, Seol Hwa
Park, Jin
Ko, Eun Jung
Son, Ga Won
Kim, Yeon Joo
Moon, Gyeong Joon
Kim, Dong Ha
Choi, Yun Jung
Rho, Jin Kyung
Park, Yun-Yong
Kim, Tae Won https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9522-1997
Song, Si Yeol https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0090-8345
Jeong, Seong-Yun https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0959-5488
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Research Foundation of Korea (RS-2024-00358981)
National Research Foundation of Korea (RS-2023-00227084)
National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF-2020R1F1A1073962)
Asan Institute for Life Sciences, Asan Medical Center (2024IP0086)
Article History
Received: 22 August 2025
Revised: 20 March 2026
Accepted: 13 May 2026
First Online: 26 May 2026
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: All animal experiments were performed following a protocol approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of the Asan Institute for Life Science (2024-40-038). Sample sizes of animal experiments were calculated using the ‘resource equation’: E = total number of animals − total number of groups, in which E should lie between 10 and 20. All patients provided signed informed consent. This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) of Asan Medical Center (2014-0214).
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