Jaber, Ali
Khalil, Alia
Houri, Ahmad
Mourad, Rana
Saadeh, Lama
El Hajj, Abdel Kader
Hayeck, Nathalie
Faour, Wissam
Yassin, Ali https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3047-9863
Funding for this research was provided by:
Lebanese American University
Article History
Received: 10 February 2026
Accepted: 26 June 2026
First Online: 15 July 2026
Declarations
Competing interests: The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
Ethics approval and consent to participate: All animal experiments and protocols were approved by the Lebanese American University IRB, Institutional Animal Care & Use Committee (IACUC), IRB #: LAU.ACUC.SOM.WF2.21/March/2023.