About the Authors

Iman Elahi Vahed

Contributed equally to this work with: Iman Elahi Vahed, Zahra Esmaili, Mina Pourhabib Mamaghani

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Zahra Esmaili

Contributed equally to this work with: Iman Elahi Vahed, Zahra Esmaili, Mina Pourhabib Mamaghani

Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran

Mina Pourhabib Mamaghani

Contributed equally to this work with: Iman Elahi Vahed, Zahra Esmaili, Mina Pourhabib Mamaghani

Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Medical Physics Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran, Student Reaserch Committee, Mashhad University of Medical Science, Mashhad, Iran

Shohreh Farshid

Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Behina Salarian

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Medical Campus, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

Mobina Alamdari

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Tehran Medical Science, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Zahra Azimizadeh

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran

Zahra Rastad

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Medicine, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran

Hoda Radmard

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Birjand University of Medical Sciences, Birjand, Iran

Hossein Soltaninejad

Roles Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

mmdrahmanian@gmail.com (MR); hossein.soltani@modares.ac.ir (HS)

Affiliation Department of stem cells technology and Tissue Regeneration, Faculty of Interdisciplinary Science and Technologies, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

Mohammad Rahmanian

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

mmdrahmanian@gmail.com (MR); hossein.soltani@modares.ac.ir (HS)

Affiliations Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases Research Center, Research Institute for Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Student Research Committee, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.