Xu, Mengyao
Liu, Hao
Wang, Jiaming https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4834-967X
Vieira, Andre F. C. https://orcid.org/0009-0008-4157-0145
Zhou, Xuntao
Liu, Nan https://orcid.org/0009-0004-9557-6017
Liang, Jialing
Du, Ailing
Chen, Xiupeng https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5916-3953
Xing, Ruxiao
Yang, Yang https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6417-3654
Gonzalez-Perez, Maria P. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7354-367X
Kumar, Vikas
Wang, Dan https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9079-2360
Funding for this research was provided by:
UMASS | University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMass Chan BRIDGE Fund Award)
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (P01HL158506)
Article History
Received: 8 October 2025
Accepted: 10 December 2025
First Online: 19 January 2026
Competing interests
: M.X., H.L., J.W. and D.W. are inventors on a patent application filed by University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School related to the subject of this study. The remaining authors declare no competing interests.