Watanabe, Haruki https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7837-086X
Palacio, Brianna https://orcid.org/0009-0008-7146-8352
Lee, Moses https://orcid.org/0009-0002-7635-8271
Sul, Hei Sook https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3372-5097
Kim, Junhwan https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1162-8616
Diamond, Betty https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3250-3804
Son, Myoungsun https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0655-3859
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institutes of Health (R01AI135063 and R21AR084084)
Article History
Received: 18 June 2025
Accepted: 24 December 2025
First Online: 3 January 2026
Declarations
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: All animal experiments were conducted following the guidelines approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) of the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research (Approval No. 2022-022). All human samples were collected from healthy, anonymized donors under protocols approved by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) of the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, which granted an exemption based on the secondary use of de-identified biological material.
: Not applicable.
: A provisional patent application has been filed by the assignee, the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, based upon the subject matter contained in this manuscript. M.S. is a named inventor on this application. All other authors declare that they have no competing interests.