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"Declarations Ethical approval and consent to participateThe experimental protocol was established, according to the ethical guidelines of the Helsinki Declaration and was approved by the Human Ethics Committee of Xuzhou Oriental People’s Hospital. Written informed consent was obtained from individual or guardian participants. Consent for publicationNot applicable. Competing interestsNo potential conflict of interests to declare. Competing interests No potential conflict of interests to declare."

"Funding This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (82371510, 81971255 and 82101572), Social Development Foundation of Jiangsu Province, China (No. BE2023668, BE2019610), the Key Project supported by Medical Science and Technology Development Foundation, Nanjing Department of Health (YKK20090), the Science and Technology Development Program of Nanjing Medical University (NMUB2019107), Nanjing Major Science and Technology Project (Life and Health, No 202305035) and Medical Science and Technology Innovation Project of Xu’zhou Health Commission for Young Scholars (No.XWKYHT20200064)."