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This study was supported by The National Natural Science Foundation of China (82160422); The Natural Science Foundation of Gansu Province of China (21JR7RA393); The Cuiying Scientific and Technological Innovation Program of Lanzhou University Second Hospital (CY2021-MS-B02); Traditional Chinese Medicine Inheritance and innovation platform construction project (TCM-IPC-2020-03).
J.J., Z.L., and X.W. contributed equally to this work.
The authors report no conflicts of interest in the authorship and publication of this article. Full ICMJE author disclosure forms are available for this article online, as supplementary material.