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"Declaration of competing interest Yufeng Zheng is an editorial board editor-in-chief 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 grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (12032007, 31971242, 82270535) and the Science and Technology Innovation Project of JinFeng Laboratory, Chongqing, China (jfkyjf202203001). The authors also thank Professor Chaojun Tang of Soochow University for their valuable suggestions on the revision of this article. The authors are also thankful for the First Batch of Key Disciplines on Public Health in Chongqing and the Public Experiment Center of State Bioindustrial Base (Chongqing), China. Kunshan Yuan: Writing – original draft, Visualization, Methodology, Investigation, Formal analysis, Data curation. Chengchen Deng: Writing – review & editing, Writing – original draft, Visualization. Lili Tan: Validation. Xiangxiu Wang: Investigation. Wenhua Yan: Validation. Xiaozhen Dai: Investigation. Ruolin Du: Methodology. Yufeng Zheng: Supervision, Resources. Haijun Zhang: Writing – review & editing, Supervision, Conceptualization. Guixue Wang: Supervision, Funding acquisition, Conceptualization."