Swaidan, Reem https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4256-8860
Daher, Ahmad
Bejjani, Anthony T.
El Atie, Yara E. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6015-2047
Chehab, Yasmina
Bou Hamdan, Razan
Vandenbosch, Renaud https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4887-9870
Slack, Ruth S. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1552-2835
Omais, Saad https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3660-2794
Ghanem, Noël https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8343-0118
Article History
Received: 4 December 2024
Revised: 22 May 2025
Accepted: 18 June 2025
First Online: 10 July 2025
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: All methods were performed in accordance with the relevant guidelines and regulations. Approval was secured from the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) at the Faculty of Medicine in the American University of Beirut (IACUC Approval # 25-01-647).