Yang, Li
Li, Xiang
Zhu, Yun
Zhang, Yu
Liu, Zheqi
Lin, Chengzhong
Jiang, Canhua
Su, Yu-Xiong https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7143-3370
Ji, Tong
Wang, Yang https://orcid.org/0009-0007-7377-5092
Gao, Jun https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5925-537X
Ye, Jinhai https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3789-551X
Article History
Received: 11 July 2024
Revised: 16 October 2025
Accepted: 19 November 2025
First Online: 6 December 2025
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the Ethical Committee of Nanjing Medical University and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1964 and later versions. All human samples were obtained with the patients’ written informed consent. All institutional and national guidelines for the care and use of laboratory animals were followed.