A pilot study examining periodontally healthy middle-aged humans and monkeys display different levels of alveolar bone resorption, gingival inflammatory infiltrate, and salivary microbiota profile

• Bingpeng Lin,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Orthodontics, Affiliated Stomatology Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China

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• Janak L. Pathak,

  Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Basic and Applied Research of Oral Regenerative Medicine, Affiliated Stomatology Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China

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• Hongbin Gao,

  Roles Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation Guangdong Laboratory Animals Monitoring Institute, Key Laboratory of Guangdong Laboratory Animals, Guangzhou, China

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• Zijun Zhou,

  Roles Investigation, Software

  Affiliation School of Life Sciences and Biopharmaceutics, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, China

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• Hooi-Leng Ser,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Novel Bacteria and Drug Discovery (NBDD) Research Group, Microbiome and Bioresource Research Strength (MBRS), Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Monash University Malaysia, Subang Jaya, Malaysia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3815-7436

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• Lihong Wu,

  Roles Methodology, Software, Supervision

  Affiliation Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Basic and Applied Research of Oral Regenerative Medicine, Affiliated Stomatology Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China

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• Learn-Han Lee,

  Roles Methodology, Project administration, Supervision

  Affiliations Novel Bacteria and Drug Discovery (NBDD) Research Group, Microbiome and Bioresource Research Strength (MBRS), Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Monash University Malaysia, Subang Jaya, Malaysia, Microbiome Research Group, Research Centre for Life Science and Healthcare, Nottingham Ningbo China Beacons of Excellence Research and Innovation Institute(CBI), University of Nottingham Ningbo China, Ningbo, China

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• Lijing Wang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Life Sciences and Biopharmaceutics, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, China

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• Jianming Chen ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

  * E-mail: 2016686043@gzhmu.edu.cn (MZ); orangeforest393@163.com (JC)

  ¶‡ JC and MZ contributed equally to this work and share first authorship

  Affiliation Department of Orthodontics, Affiliated Stomatology Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China

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• Mei Zhong

  Roles Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: 2016686043@gzhmu.edu.cn (MZ); orangeforest393@163.com (JC)

  ¶‡ JC and MZ contributed equally to this work and share first authorship

  Affiliation Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Basic and Applied Research of Oral Regenerative Medicine, Affiliated Stomatology Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China

  https://orcid.org/0009-0009-8797-1267

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