Li, Qiang
Ru, Xufang
Yang, Yang
Zhao, Hengli
Qu, Jie
Chen, Weixiang
Pan, Pengyu
Ruan, Huaizhen
Li, Chaojun
Chen, Yujie http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9905-9138
Feng, Hua
Article History
Received: 18 November 2021
Accepted: 26 April 2022
First Online: 7 July 2022
Competing interests
: The authors have no competing interests to declare.
: All animal protocols were approved by the Laboratory Animal Welfare and Ethics Committee of the Third Military Medical University (Approval No. AMUWEC2020793). All animal studies were conducted in accordance with the China Public Health Service Policy on Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals. Mouse colonies were maintained in accordance with institutional guidelines. C57BL/6 mouse colonies were established from mice initially purchased from the Animal Center of the Third Military Medical University (Permit No. SCXK20170002; Chongqing, China). PDGFRα-Cre mice were purchased from the Jackson Laboratory (Cat log: 018280, Bar Harbor, ME). EGR1<sup>fl/fl</sup> mice were kindly provided by the Model Animal Research Center of Nanjing University. LCN2<sup>KD</sup> mice were generated by injecting LCN2 siRNA, which induced stable knockdown in C57BL/6 mice.