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Declaration of competing interest

The authors declare that no conflict of interest exists.

Acknowledgments

We thank Dr. Peter Karagiannis for critically reading the

manuscript. This study was supported by a grant from the Network

Program for Realization of Regenerative Medicine from the Japan

Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED).

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