Song, Wenyu
Tan, Ruochen
Feng, Yuan
Li, Xiaoyan
Lee, Sophia J.
Engle, Jonathan W
Cai, Weibo
Lan, Xiaoli
Zhang, Xiao
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (823B2042)
National Natural Science Foundation of China (82372026)
University of Wisconsin-Madison (-)
National Institutes of Health (P30CA014520)
Noncommunicable Chronic Diseases-National Science and Technology Major Project (2024ZD0525901)
Wuhan Knowledge Innovation Special project-Dawning Plan project (20232406)
Article History
Received: 20 April 2026
Accepted: 3 August 2026
First Online: 12 August 2026
Declarations
Ethics Statement for Animal Studies: All animal experiments were conducted in accordance with the guidelines of the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) at Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology. The experimental protocol ([2023] IACUC No. 4703) was reviewed and approved by the ethics committee prior to initiation of the study.
Competing interests: Weibo Cai declares conflict of interest with the following corporations: Portrai, Inc., rTR Technovation Corporation, and Four Health Global Pharmaceuticals Inc. All other authors declare no conflict of interest. All other authors declare no Competing interests.