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"This work was supported by the grants from the Sichuan Science and Technology Program, China (Grant Nos.: 2023NSFSC0614 and 2022YFS0624), Southwest Medical University Science and Technology Program, China (Grant No.: 2021ZKZD017), the Luzhou Science and Technology Program, China (Grant Nos.: 2022-YJY-127, 2022YFS0624-B1, 2022YFS0624-C1, and 2022YFS0624-B3), and the Open Research Project Program funded by the Science and Technology Development Fund (Grant No.: SKL-QRCM(UM)-2020-2022) and the State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine (University of Macau, Macao, China) (Grant No.: SKL-QRCM-OP21006). Jiuping Zeng and Mingxing Li: Writing - Original draft preparation, Reviewing and Editing, Visualization; Qianyun Zhao and Meijuan Chen: Writing - Original draft preparation, Visualization; Long Zhao: Supervision, Writing - Reviewing and editing; Shuin Wei and Huan Yang: Writing - Original draft preparation; Yueshui Zhao, Anqi Wang, Jing Shen, Fukuan Du, Yu Chen, Shuai Deng, Fang Wang, and Zhuo Zhang: Visualization, Writing - Reviewing and Editing; Zhi Li, Tiangang Wang, and Shengpeng Wang: Visualization; Zhangang Xiao: Conceptualization, Writing - Reviewing and Editing; Xu Wu: Conceptualization, Writing - Reviewing and Editing, Visualization, Funding acquisition."