Corion, Matthias
Akram, Muhammad Zeeshan
Arévalo Sureda, Ester
Comer, Luke
Maertens, Jeroen
Smeets, Natasja
Everaert, Nadia
Funding for this research was provided by:
Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (12AEG26N)
KU Leuven (PDMT2/25/048)
Agentschap Innoveren en Ondernemen (HBC.2023.0172)
Article History
Received: 10 February 2026
Accepted: 3 June 2026
First Online: 2 August 2026
Declarations
Ethics approval and consent to participate: The trial was performed at the experimental animal unit of the Department of Biosystems of KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium). The study was approved by the Ethical Committee for Animal Experimentation of KU Leuven under project number PPL.078/2022.
Consent for publication: All authors consent to the publication of this work and confirm that all necessary permissions have been obtained for any included data, figures, or images. We affirm that ethical guidelines were followed in the research, and any required approvals were secured.
Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.