Li, Dongli https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8432-1132
Ou, Qingjian https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6881-8680
Gao, Furong
Wang, Xi
Zhu, Lilin
Zhou, Ye
Xu, Jing-Ying
Jin, Caixia
Wang, Juan
Zhang, Jieping
Li, Jiao
Bi, Yanlong
Lu, Lixia https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0268-4656
Xu, Guo-Tong
Tian, Haibin https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3557-0965
Article History
Received: 7 July 2025
Revised: 9 November 2025
Accepted: 4 December 2025
First Online: 31 December 2025
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: All animal procedures were carried out in accordance with the institutional guidelines and the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals issued by the NIH, and the guidelines of the animal experimentation ethics committee of Tongji University (Approval NO. TJAA09624101), and in line with the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology Statement for the Use of Animals in Ophthalmic and Vision Research.
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