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Following treatment intervention, immune pathways showed a clear trend toward normalization, reflecting the restoration of salivary balance.
In the analyzed samples, MUC7 was significantly reduced, whereas MUC5B showed only a decreasing trend, suggesting that MUC7 may be more susceptible to proteolytic degradation.