Gendebien, Zoé
Poulet, Christophe https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4055-5441
Deroyer, Céline https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5399-0891
Paulissen, Geneviève
Salpetier, Pauline
Hego, Alexandre https://orcid.org/0009-0007-7968-6795
Lefèvre, Gaëtan
Cobraiville, Gaël
Neuville, Sophie
Plener, Zelda
Daniel, Christophe
Thirion, Thierry
Sokolova, Tatiana
Durez, Patrick
Hemon, Patrice https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2244-5321
Delarue, Yuna
Marec, Nadège
Bianchi, Elettra
Delvenne, Philippe
Ribbens, Clio
de Seny, Dominique https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5757-9418
Article History
Received: 29 October 2025
Revised: 13 July 2026
Accepted: 27 July 2026
First Online: 12 August 2026
Ethics
Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.
Ethical approval and informed consent: All experiments were undertaken with patient material complying with the regulations and ethical guidelines of the University Hospital of Liège (CHU) and Catholic University of Louvain (UCLouvain) Belgium, and were approved by the CHU ethical committee (ref: 2017/147) and UCLouvain ethical committee (ref: 2013/24MAI/293) and the biobank research committee (BB190058) of the CHU of Liège. We certify that the study was conducted under the ethical standards outlined in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its subsequent amendments, or with comparable ethical standards. Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study. All animal studies were conducted in compliance with European and Belgian guidelines for the care and use of laboratory animals, and experimentation procedures were approved by the local ethical committee (LA1610002; #14-1721 University of Liège, Liège, Belgium). The experiments comply with the current laws of Belgium in which they were performed. Investigators were not blinded to group allocation.