Lotfi, Ehsan
Karamali, Fatemeh
Aghavali, Mahsa
Golab, Fereshteh
Asad, Ali Ghanbari https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6423-4680
Barati, Mahmood https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9663-9313
Funding for this research was provided by:
Iran University of Medical Sciences (13543)
Article History
Received: 4 November 2025
Accepted: 2 February 2026
First Online: 24 February 2026
Declarations
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: It was carried out in compliance with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki and approved by the Ethics Committee of the Affiliated Hospital of Iran University of Medical Science (IR.IUMS.REC.1397.1217). All patients and healthy volunteers gave their informed consent to use their blood samples and data.
: The authors declare that they have no potential conflicts of interest regarding research, authorship, or publication in this article.