Tsai, Yung-Nan
Hsiao, Ya-Wen
Chang, Ting-Yung
Liao, Chen-Chung
Lin, Chin-Yu
Hsieh, Yu-Cheng
Chao, Tze-Fan
Li, Guan-Yi
Huang, Yu-Ting
Higa, Satoshi
Chen, Shih-Ann
Chang, Shih-Lin
Funding for this research was provided by:
Foundation for the Development of Internal Medicine in Okinawa (5-02-007)
Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (MOST106-2314-B-010-035-MY3)
Taipei Veterans General Hospital (V108C-055)
SZU-YUAN Research Foundation of Internal Medicine (111003)
Article History
Received: 23 September 2025
Accepted: 25 November 2025
First Online: 4 December 2025
Declarations
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: All procedures performed in studies involving animals were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee. Approval was granted by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of Taipei Veterans General Hospital (IACUC No. 2020 − 136). No human studies were carried out by the authors for this article. Animals were obtained from Hui-Jun Rabbit Farm, Changhua County, Taiwan. No privately owned animals were used; therefore, owner consent was not required.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.