Elhamamsy, Amr R. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8579-0184
Metge, Brandon J.
Elbahoty, Mohamed H.
Papineni, Bhavyasree https://orcid.org/0009-0001-0110-7681
Alsheikh, Heba Allah M.
Chen, Dongquan
Samant, Rajeev S. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5681-4976
Shevde, Lalita A.
Article History
Received: 2 March 2025
Revised: 10 November 2025
Accepted: 2 December 2025
First Online: 8 January 2026
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: These studies complied with all relevant ethical regulations. Animal experiments were conducted in accordance with protocols approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.