Salam, S. M. Abdus
Jahan, Eshrat
Ahn, Eun-Jung
Kim, Sung Sun
Kim, Yeong Jin
Park, Sue Jee
Jung, Tae-Young
Kim, In-Young
Jung, Shin
Lee, Roo Ji
Lee, Jae-Hyuk
Rhee, Joon Haeng
Kim, Kyung Keun
Yi, Min-Hee
Lee, Kyung-Hwa
Moon, Kyung-Sub
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Research Foundation of Korea (2022R1A2C1011889)
National Research Foundation of Korea (2020R1A5A2031185)
National Research Foundation of Korea (2020R1C1C1007832)
Chonnam National University Hospital Biomedical Research Institute (HCRI23011)
Chonnam National University Hospital Biomedical Research Institute (HCRI23010)
Article History
Received: 12 March 2025
Accepted: 20 September 2025
First Online: 30 September 2025
Declarations
:
: This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Chonnam National University Hwasun Hospital and conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki (CNUHH-2019-218, CNUHH-2024-114). Written informed consent to use clinical data and surgically resected specimens was obtained from all patients or their legal surrogates. The experimental protocol was approved by the Chonnam National University Medical School Research Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (CNU IACUC-H-2023-59), and all animal experiments were conducted following recognized principles for animal management and use (DHU publication, NIH 80 − 23).
: All authors have read and approved the fnal manuscript and consent to publication.
: The authors declare no competing interests.