Heo, Sook-Kyoung
Shin, Yerang
Kim, Sung Ah
Kim, Minhui
Noh, Eui-Kyu
Jo, Jae-Cheol
Funding for this research was provided by:
Ulsan University Hospital (UUH-2023-11)
Article History
Received: 29 September 2025
Accepted: 9 January 2026
First Online: 17 January 2026
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: Human subject research submitted to Scientific Reports adheres to the principles outlined in the Declaration of Helsinki. The experimental protocol was developed in accordance with the ethical guidelines of the Declaration of Helsinki and was approved by the Ethics Committee of Ulsan University College of Medicine (Approval Number: UUH-IRB-2016-07-026).