Chen, Jia-li
Feng, Zhe-ling
Zhou, Fei
Lou, Ruo-han
Peng, Cheng
Ye, Yang
Lin, Li-gen
Article History
Received: 4 March 2022
Accepted: 12 July 2022
First Online: 9 August 2022
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The procedures and operations involved in the animal experiments were performed according to the guidelines and regulations by the Animal Ethical and Welfare Committee of University of Macau (No. UMARE-033-2017). All animal experiments were carried out according to the guidelines of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals. Male C57BL/6J mice (8‒10 weeks old) were purchased from the animal facility of Faculty of Health Science, University of Macau (Macao, China). The mice were housed on a 12 h light-dark cycles at 22 ± 1 °C with a regular chow diet (Guangdong Medical Lab Animal Center, Guangzhou, China) and water <i>ad libitum</i> under standard conditions (specific-pathogen-free) with air filtration.