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Acknowledgements
We are grateful to the Research Support Center, Research Center for Human Disease Modeling, Kyushu University Graduate School of Medical Sciences for their technical assistance. This study was supported by a grant-in-aid
from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) KAKENHI (JP21K19610, JP21H03150 to K.Y. and
JP17H01606 to S.F.). This work was supported by the JST FOREST Program (JPMJFR2013 to K. Y.). K. Y. was
financially supported by the Takeda Science Foundation.
Author contributions
T.Y. and K.Y. conceptualized the experiment and wrote the manuscript. T.Y. and T.T. performed the experiments
and data analysis, with contributions from Y.C., K.M., K.F., K.M., Y.F., and J.K. T.I., I.T., S.F., and K.Y. supervised
the study. All authors reviewed the manuscript.
Competing interests The authors declare no competing interests.
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methods of regenerative tissues
Tomomi Yuta, Tian Tian, Yuta Chiba, Kanako Miyazaki, Keita Funada, Kanji Mizuta,
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