Article History
Received: 17 May 2021
Revised: 22 February 2022
Accepted: 16 March 2022
First Online: 3 May 2022
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: Experimental procedures on human specimens were approved by the Human Research Ethics Committee of Pingxiang Affiliated Hospital, Southern Medical University, and signed informed consents were obtained from all participants prior to specimen collection. Animal studies were conducted under the approval of the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee in Pingxiang Affiliated Hospital, Southern Medical University. Extensive efforts were undertaken to minimize the number and suffering of the included animals.