Volume 93, April 2026, 104269Author links open overlay panel, , Section snippetsEthical statement

This Letter to the Editor does not involve any studies with human participants or animals performed by any of the authors. Therefore, ethical approval and informed consent were not required.

CRediT authorship contribution statement

Rongyi Xu: Writing – original draft. Deyi Pan: Writing – original draft. Lisong Chen: Writing – review & editing.

Funding

The work was supported by Joint Funds for the innovation of science and Technology, Fujian province (2023Y9230); Startup Fund for scientific research, Fujian Medical University (2024QH1433); Startup Fund for scientific research, Fujian Medical University (2019QH1127).

Declaration of Competing Interest

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.

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