HE	hematoxylin and eosin
PSR	picrosirius red
mIHC	multiple immunohistochemistry
P	puerarin
B	borax
BP	puerarin–borax–PVA
PVA	polyvinyl alcohol
SEM	scanning electron microscopy
FTIR	Fourier Transform Infrared
L929	the mouse fibroblast cell line
DEGs	differentially expressed genes
GO	Gene Ontology
KEGG	Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes
GSEA	Gene Set Enrichment Analysis
M1	Type 1 macrophages
M2	Type 2 macrophages
CCK-8	Cell counting Kit-8
STZ	streptozotocin
RIN	RNA integrity number
CD206	Anti-Mannose Receptor