Sun, Xiaoli
Ren, Qian
Liu, Xi
Tan, Huishi
Zhan, Zhanji
Lin, Enqing
Long, Yinyi
Hong, Xue
Zhou, Lili https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5044-6965
Liu, Youhua https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4740-805X
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (82230020, 82430026, 81920108007)
Article History
Received: 30 December 2024
Revised: 25 April 2025
Accepted: 1 May 2025
First Online: 17 May 2025
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: This study was performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. The animal studies were conducted according to NIH Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals and approved by the Ethics Committee for Animal Studies at the Nanfang Hospital (NFYY-2020-0953). The use of human kidney specimens in this study was approved by the Institutional Ethics Committee at Nanfang Hospital, with written informed consent from the patients (EFEC-2021-051). To ensure participant anonymity, all personal identifiers were removed from clinical data, and specimens were coded using non-traceable alphanumeric identifiers.