Chen, Bo
Pathak, Janak L.
Qin, Xiuni
Li, Xueyang
Mao, Tianjiao
Chen, Xi
Wei, Wei
Watanabe, Nobumoto
Wang, Lijing
Mayo, Kevin H.
Di, Jun https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4640-4727
Huo, Yongliang https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3880-8622
Li, Xiaomeng
Li, Jiang https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9938-1362
Article History
Received: 23 July 2025
Revised: 9 December 2025
Accepted: 25 December 2025
First Online: 13 March 2026
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The Medical Ethics Committee of the Affiliated Stomatology Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University approved patient sample-related studies (approval no. KY2019032). In addition, all animal experiments were approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of Guangzhou Medical University (approval no. GY2023-553).