Min, Peng-Xiang https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2228-7252
Feng, Li-Li https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0890-1295
Zhang, Yi-Xuan https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9781-6281
Jiang, Chen-Chen
Zhang, Hong-Zhen
Chen, Yan
Fukunaga, Kohji
Liu, Fang
Zhang, Yu-Jie
Sasaki, Takuya
Qian, Xu https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1533-8568
Horimoto, Katsuhisa
Jiang, Jian-Dong
Lu, Ying-Mei https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3187-4344
Han, Feng https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4868-3491
Article History
Received: 30 September 2024
Revised: 15 May 2025
Accepted: 9 June 2025
First Online: 18 June 2025
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: All animal experiments were performed in accordance with NIH and relevant guidelines for the care and use of laboratory animals of Nanjing Medical University in China, and approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee at Nanjing Medical University (IACUC-1912036). Human samples were obtained with informed consent of patients, and all experimental procedures were performed in accordance with the recognized ethical guidelines of the Declaration of Helsinki (2013), and approved by the Ethics Committee of the Third Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University ([2024]KY034-01).