Nourbakhsh, Seyed Alihossein
Piri, Hashem https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3137-6161
Sheikhhoseini, Rahman https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9885-3591
Seyedi, Mohammadreza https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5551-4610
Ebrahimi, Naser
Ebrahimi, Ebrahim
Relph, Nicola https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3323-3444
Article History
Received: 2 June 2026
Accepted: 30 September 2026
First Online: 9 October 2026
Declarations
Ethics approval and consent to participate: Before starting the investigation, study approval was obtained from the Biomedical Research Ethics Committee of Allameh Tabataba’i University (Ethics code: IR.ATU.REC.1402.056), and all participants gave written informed consent. The authors confirm that all methods followed the relevant guidelines and regulations.
Consent for publication: Not applicable.
Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.