Chakraborty, Amit Kumar https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7455-6579
Raut, Rajnikant Dilip
Iqbal, Kisa
Choudhury, Chumki
Alhousami, Thabet https://orcid.org/0009-0003-8570-0160
Chogle, Sami
Acosta, Alexa S.
Fagman, Lana
Deabold, Kelly
Takada, Marilia
Sahay, Bikash
Kumar, Vikas
Bais, Manish V. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4198-7377
Funding for this research was provided by:
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (R01 DE031413)
Article History
Received: 9 June 2024
Revised: 26 February 2025
Accepted: 10 March 2025
First Online: 17 April 2025
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interest.
: All experiments were performed with prior approval from the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (BUMC IACUC protocol # PROTO201800279) of Boston University. The veterinary trial was conducted in accordance with the NIH Guidelines for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals, with approval from the University of Florida IACUC Committee (IACUC 202200000137). Ethical approval for human studies was “not applicable.”