Wen, Xin
Ng, Tsz Kin
Zhang, Guihua
Chen, Haoyu
Wu, Zhenggen
Liu, Qingping
Zhang, Mingzhi https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9032-7274
Funding for this research was provided by:
Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation of Guangdong Province (2023A1515220094)
Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Provincial (2022A1515011646)
2020 Li Ka Shing Foundation Cross-Disciplinary Research Grant (2020LKSFG14B)
Medical and health technology project of Shantou (240511096499246)
Clinical Research Center for Eye Diseases, Shantou University Medical College (0231)
Article History
Received: 3 August 2024
Revised: 8 June 2025
Accepted: 30 June 2025
First Online: 18 July 2025
Declarations
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: This study was approved by the Ethics Committee for Human Medical Research and Experimental Animal at the Joint Shantou International Eye Center of Shantou University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong (approval number: EC20200609(6)-P24, EC20200730(4)-P01), which is in accordance with the tenets of the Declaration of Helsinki. Written informed consents were obtained from all study subjects after explanation of the nature and possible consequences of the study.
: All the authors approved publishing this manuscript in this journal.
: All authors declare no competing financial interests.