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"Funding This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 31670967, 32000932 and 82061160492), the Key Research and Development Projects in Anhui Province (No. 202104j07020039 and 2022e07020051), the Scientific Research Foundation of the Institute for Translational Medicine of Anhui Province (No. 2021zhyx-C51 and No. 2021zhyx-C68), 2020 Disciplinary Construction Project in School of Dentistry, Anhui Medical University (No. 2020kqkyT01, 2020kqkyT03 and 2020kqsy09), 2021 Disciplinary Construction Project in School of Dentistry, Anhui Medical University (No. 2021kqxkFY13 and 2021kqxkFY16), Key Project of Natural Science Research of the Anhui Provincial Department of Education (No. KJ2019A0251 and KJ2021A0270) and Anhui Provincial Natural Science Foundation (No. 2208085QE136 and 2008085QH374). Conflicts of interest statement. The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper."