Zeng, Fanhong
Guo, Jiaxin
Zeng, Zheng
Zhang, Vanilla Xin
Tsui, Yu-Man
Li, Po-Man
Husain, Abdullah
Zhang, Qingyang
Lee, Joyce Man-Fong
Cheung, Tan-To
Ho, Daniel Wai-Hung
Ng, Irene Oi-Lin https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7532-2029
Funding for this research was provided by:
the Health and Medical Research Fund (10212956 & 07182546)
Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC) General Research Fund (17100021 & 17117019)
RGC Theme-based Research Scheme (T12-716/22-R)
RGC Collaborative Research Fund (C5017-24G)
Innovation and Technology Commission grant to the State Key Laboratory of Liver Research of the University of Hong Kong (ITC PD/17-9)
NSFC grant (82394451)
Article History
Received: 28 January 2026
Accepted: 3 May 2026
First Online: 1 June 2026
Declarations
Ethics Approval: Human ethics and consent to participate declaration: All human experiments were approved by the Institutional Review Board of the University of Hong Kong/Hospital Authority Hong Kong West Cluster (UW 17–056).The animal experiment was approved by the Committee on the Use of Live Animals in Teaching and Research (CULATR 23-211), Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong.
Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.