Zhuang, Dexuan
Wang, Shuangshuang
Deng, Huiting
Shi, Yuxin
Liu, Chang
Leng, Xue
Zhang, Qun
Bai, Fuxiang
Zheng, Bin
Guo, Jing
Wu, Xunwei http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0822-1700
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (82273554, 83073470)
Department of Education of Shandong Province (ZR2019ZD36)
Article History
Received: 20 November 2023
Revised: 5 March 2024
Accepted: 17 March 2024
First Online: 8 May 2024
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The animal experiments were conducted in accordance with the National Institutes of Health Guidelines for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals and the principles of the Basel Declaration. All animal procedures in this study were approved by the Ethics Committee of the Hospital of Stomatology, Shandong University (No. GD202002, Date: 2020/3/20). The human gingival epithelial cells were derived from gingival tissues discarded from impacted tooth extraction surgeries without any personal information. The protocol was reviewed and approved by the Ethics Committee of School and Hospital of Stomatology, Shandong University (No. GR202002, Date: 2020/3/20).