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"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. Please declare any financial interests/personal relationships which may be considered as potential competing interests here. Yuanjin Zhao is an editorial board member for Bioactive Materials and was not involved in the editorial review or the decision to publish this article. All authors declare that there are no competing interests."

"This work was supported by the 10.13039/501100012166National Key Research and Development Program of China (2020YFA0908200), the 10.13039/501100001809National Natural Science Foundation of China (T2225003, 52073060 and 61927805), the Nanjing Medical Science and Technique Development Foundation (ZKX21019), the Clinical Trials from Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital (2022-LCYJ-ZD-01), Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation (2021B1515120054), and the 10.13039/501100017607Shenzhen Fundamental Research Program (JCYJ20210324133214038). Han Zhang: Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing. Xiang Lin: Writing – review & editing. Xinyue Cao: Writing – review & editing. Yu Wang: Writing – review & editing. Jinglin Wang: Writing – review & editing. Yuanjin Zhao: Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing, Funding acquisition."