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Hepatocyte growth factor enhances the ability of dental pulp stem cells to ameliorate atherosclerosis in apolipoprotein E-knockout mice
Han Duan, Ning Tao, Lin Lv, Kai-Xin Yan, Yong-Gang You, Zhuang Mao, Chang-Yao Wang, Xue Li, Jia-Yan Jin, Chu-Tse Wu, Hua Wang
Han Duan, Chang-Yao Wang, Hua Wang, School of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding 071002, Hebei Province, China
Ning Tao, Lin Lv, Zhuang Mao, Xue Li, Chu-Tse Wu, Hua Wang, Beijing Institute of Radiation Medicine, Beijing 100850, China
Kai-Xin Yan, Department of Cardiology, The Sixth Medical Centre, Chinese People’s Liberation Army General Hospital, Beijing 100037, China
Yong-Gang You, Department of Orthopaedics, The Fourth Medical Centre, Chinese People’s Liberation Army General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China
Jia-Yan Jin, Third Cadet Regiment, School of Basic Medical Science, Air Force Medical University, Xi’an 710032, Shaanxi Province, China
Co-first authors: Han Duan and Ning Tao.
Author contributions: Duan H and Tao N contributed equally to this study. These contributions include study design, acquisition and analysis of experimental data, and writing the actual manuscript. Wang H contributed to the conceptualization and writing - review & editing; Duan H, Tao N, and Lv L were involved in the data curation; Duan H, Tao N, Lv L, Yan KX, You YG, Mao Z, Wang CY, Li X, and Jin JY participated in the formal analysis; Duan H and Tao N contributed to the methodology of this manuscript; Wu CT was major in the supervision of this article; Duan H wrote original draft.
Institutional animal care and use committee statement: All procedures that involved animals were approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of Beijing Institute of Radiation Medicine (IACUC-DWZX-2021-714).
Conflict-of-interest statement: All the authors report no relevant conflicts of interest for this article.
Data sharing statement: No additional data are available.
ARRIVE guidelines statement: The authors have read the ARRIVE guidelines, and the manuscript was prepared and revised according to the ARRIVE guidelines.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See:
https://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Corresponding author: Hua Wang, PhD, Beijing Institute of Radiation Medicine, No. 27 Taiping Road, Beijing 100850, China. 18511712135@163.com
Received: January 18, 2024
Revised: March 18, 2024
Accepted: April 9, 2024
Published online: May 26, 2024
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