Lin, Hao
Su, Ting
Liu, Ying
Deng, Ruilan
Li, Jie
Lin, Xuanhao
Ke, Qiaoling
Luo, Yijing
Meng, Lele
Liang, Bin
Song, Xuhong
Huang, Dongyang https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0481-4397
Xie, Lingzhu https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3591-5767
Funding for this research was provided by:
Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province (2023A1515010434)
National Natural Science Foundation of China (32000456)
Article History
Received: 21 January 2026
Revised: 30 March 2026
Accepted: 27 April 2026
First Online: 5 May 2026
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Shantou University Medical College, China (Approval No. SUMC-2020-14). Written informed consent was obtained from all patients for tissue collection and analysis. All methods involving human participants were performed in accordance with the relevant guidelines and regulations. All animal procedures were performed in accordance with institutional guidelines and approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of Shantou University Medical College (Approval No. SUMC-2022-289).