Yu, Junhui https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2119-3713
Mu, Mingchao
Zhao, Chenye
Li, Xiaopeng
Ma, Xueqian
Dong, Zepeng
Sun, Xuejun https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0178-5551
Zheng, Jianbao
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (81972720)
Article History
Received: 7 September 2023
Revised: 5 December 2025
Accepted: 21 January 2026
First Online: 12 March 2026
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: All animal experiments in this study were performed in compliance with the guidelines of the Declaration of Helsinki and approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) of The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University. For human specimen-related research, patients were fully informed that their resected tissues would be archived by the hospital for potential scientific use, with strict safeguards for their privacy. Written informed consent was obtained from all patients prior to surgery, and the study protocol was approved by the Ethics Committee of the above-mentioned hospital.