Animals
Dextran sulfate sodium (DSS)-induced colitis experiment was approved by
the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of Ajou University
(IACUC #2023-0040). Animals were kept in the Laboratory Animal Research
Center of Ajou University Medical Center under specific pathogen-free
conditions. They received sterilized food and water ad libitum .
Six-week-old wild-type (WT) C57BL/6 female mice were purchased from
Orient Bio Inc. (Sungnam, Korea). CX3CR1-DTR mice
(Jackson Laboratories) were kindly provided by D.R. Littman (New York
University Medical Center) (Diehl et al., 2013).