Gu, Zhanfeng
Wang, Xiaojuan
Wang, Hong
Wang, Junhua
Huang, Zhaorong
Pan, Dongyue
Zhang, Zhenhua
Zeng, Yechun
Cai, Guodi
Sun, Huizi
Zheng, Jun
Nie, Yichu
Zhang, Qingwen
Li, Haolong
Chan, Franky Leung
Wang, Junjian https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5328-2908
Zheng, Jianwei https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9725-6920
Fan, Yingfang https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6787-0014
Article History
Received: 26 July 2025
Revised: 25 September 2025
Accepted: 21 October 2025
First Online: 22 December 2025
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The clinical samples involved in this research were obtained with approval from the Ethics Committee of The Third Affiliated Hospital of Southern Medical University and The First People’s Hospital of Foshan (2025-ER-007). Prior to enrollment in the study, informed consent was voluntarily provided by all participants. All procedures were conducted in accordance with ethical and operational guidelines. All animal experiments were approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU-IACUC-2023-001164) and were carried out in full compliance with the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals.