“…Of the 27 included in vivo studies, two were human trials (Petruskevicius et al, 2002;Mochizuki and Ochi, 2015) and 25 were animal studies. More than half of the animal studies (n = 14) utilized a rabbit model (Zhang et al, 2011;Li et al, 2012Li et al, , 2017Jiang et al, 2014;Han et al, 2015;Chou et al, 2016;Chung et al, 2017;Lee et al, 2017;Cai et al, 2018;Hu et al, 2018;Chen P. et al, 2019;Han F. et al, 2019;Learn et al, 2019), eight studies used rats (Loeffler et al, 2013;Zhao et al, 2014Zhao et al, , 2015aKovacevic et al, 2015;Zhang et al, 2018;Zhu Q. et al, 2019), and three studies used pigs (Fleming et al, 2009;Vavken et al, 2012;Li et al, 2014). The involved patients and animals were mature, and no minor or immature animal model had been investigated in previous studies so far as searched.…”