Bileisiene, Neringa
Shelest, Anastasiia
Petraityte, Gunda
Alaburda, Aidas
Sasnauskiene, Ausra
Jasinevicius, Andrius
Kairys, Visvaldas
Dapkunas, Justas
Mikstiene, Violeta
Zitkute, Vilmante
Maldziene, Zivile
Barysiene, Jurate
Preiksaitiene, Egle
Funding for this research was provided by:
Research Council of Lithuania (S-MIP-21–15; ATGC project, S-MIP-21–15; ATGC project, S-MIP-21–15; ATGC project, S-MIP-21–15; ATGC project, S-MIP-21–15; ATGC project, S-MIP-21–15; ATGC project, S-MIP-21–15; ATGC project, S-MIP-21–15; ATGC project)
Article History
Received: 23 May 2025
Accepted: 31 October 2025
First Online: 26 November 2025
Declarations
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: The study was approved by the Vilnius Regional Biomedical Research Ethics Committee of Lithuania (Protocol Code No. 2020/1-1182-669, date of approval January 28, 2020; and No. 2021/9-1373-849, date of approval September 21, 2021). All procedures involving human participants followed the Helsinki Declaration. All subjects gave their informed consent for participation in this study.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.