Stavropoulos, Athanasios
Stamatopoulou, Vassiliki
Pavlos, Eleftherios
Manioudaki, Maria
Sakellariou, Stratigoula
Stathopoulos, Constantinos
Xilouri, Maria
Funding for this research was provided by:
EATRIS-GR (MIS5028091)
Hellenic Association for the Study of Liver (2019)
Article History
Received: 24 July 2025
Accepted: 17 December 2025
First Online: 16 January 2026
Declarations
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: All human samples were used under an Institutional Review Board and Local Scientific and Ethics Committees-approved protocol (license no. 2592/2024). The Local Ethics Committee acts on the Helsinki Declaration. Prior to analysis, all cases were anonymized and deidentified to ensure confidentiality and anonymity. The care and treatment of the animals were carried out in accordance with FELASA and ARRIVE principles and were approved by the Greek Ministry of Agriculture and the Institutional Committee on Ethics of Animal Experiments (license no. 1240342/24-11-2022). The Local Ethics Committee of Animal Experiments acts on Directive 2010/63/EU.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.