Zhang, Lihui
Chen, Hongping
Zou, Guangmei
Jia, Wenjuan
Dong, Haibin
Wang, Chunxiao
Wang, Hua
Liu, Yugang
Teng, Da
Xu, Bowen
Zhong, Lin
Gong, Lei
Yang, Jun
Funding for this research was provided by:
Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province (No. ZR2023QH348, No. ZR2023QH348, No. ZR2023QH348, No. ZR2023QH348, No. ZR2023QH348, No. ZR2023QH348, No. ZR2023QH348, No. ZR2023QH348, No. ZR2023QH348, No. ZR2023QH348, No. ZR2023QH348, No. ZR2023QH348, No. ZR2023QH348)
Article History
Received: 26 November 2024
Accepted: 2 May 2025
First Online: 13 May 2025
Declarations
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: All animal experiments were rigorously reviewed and received approval from the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of Qingdao University Medical College and the Ethics Committee of Yantai Yuhuangding Hospital (Approval No. 2023–329), ensuring compliance with the National Institutes of Health's Guidelines for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals. This study was sanctioned by the Ethics Committee of Yantai Yuhuangding Hospital (Approval No. 2023–328), in strict compliance with the ethical standards stipulated in the 1975 Declaration of Helsinki. The STROBE checklist used in this sub-study was provided in the Supplementary Material. Informed consent was duly obtained from all participants prior to their involvement in the study.
: This study does not contain any individual person’s data. The authors declare agreement for publication.
: The authors declare no competing interests.