Yang, Chao https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0210-7648
Wang, Zeng
Hu, Yuanchang
Yang, Shikun https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8722-4730
Cheng, Feng https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6131-2970
Rao, Jianhua https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1222-7707
Wang, Xuehao https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5849-0098
Article History
Received: 9 October 2021
Revised: 8 January 2022
Accepted: 18 February 2022
First Online: 14 March 2022
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: This study protocol was in accordance with the Ethics Committee at the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University and with the ethical guidelines of the 1975 Helsinki Declaration. All animals were maintained under specific pathogen-free conditions. The animal protocol was approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) of Nanjing Medical University (Protocol Number IACUC-1702001). Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the present study.