Lee, Soohyeon
Park, Soon-A
Jo, Hantae
Kim, Dokyeong
Park, Junseong
Chung, Yeun-Jun
Jeong, Sangmoo
Cho, Yeong Hui
Lee, Heung Kyu
Ahn, Stephen
Choi, Haeyoun
Funding for this research was provided by:
NIH (R35GM147513)
Korea Health Technology R&D Project through the Korea Health Industry Development Institute (KHIDI), funded by the Ministry of Health & Welfare (RS-2025-16068032)
Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (RS-2023-00229822, RS-2024-00352668, RS-2025-16067872)
St. Mary’s Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea (ZC25MISI0083)
National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (RS-2023-NR076336)
Article History
Received: 3 December 2025
Accepted: 29 July 2026
First Online: 3 August 2026
Declarations
Ethics approval and consent to participate: This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Catholic University of Korea (MC23SASI0036, KC23SISI0414, KC21TIS0793) in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. All animal experiments were approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) of our institution (Approval No. 2024-0186-03).
Consent for publication: Not applicable.
Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.