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"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateAll animal experiments were approved by the Institutional Animal Ethics Committee of Jinan university and strictly conducted in accordance with Institutional Laboratory Animal Care and Use Manual. Consent for publicationNot applicable. Competing interestsThe authors declare that they have no competing interests. Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests."

"Funding This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 82271943, 81971672), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. 21623314), Guangzhou Science and Technology Plan Project (No. 2023A03J1037), the Clinical Frontier Technology Program of the First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, China (No. JNU1AF-CFTP-2022-a01233), Guangzhou Basic Research Foundation (No. 202201020005), Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation (No. 2022A1515110630), Guangdong Medical Science and Technology Research Foundation (No. 20201124174036494)."