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Received January 12, 2022. Accepted December 5, 2022.
Correspondence
Address correspondence to: Hideki Enomoto, MD, PhD, Division of Neural
Differentiation and Regeneration, Department of Physiology and Cell Biology,
Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, 7-5-1 Kusunoki-cho, Chuoku, Hyogo 650-0017, Japan. e-mail: enomotoh@med.kobe-u.ac.jp.
Acknowledgments
The authors thank all members of the Enomoto laboratory for their assistance
and discussion. They also thank their collaborators in T-CiRA for fruitful
discussion.
CRediT Authorship Contributions
Mukhamad Sunardi (Conceptualization: Equal; Data curation: Lead; Formal
analysis: Lead; Funding acquisition: Supporting; Investigation: Lead;
Methodology: Lead; Visualization: Lead; Writing – original draft: Lead)
Keisuke Ito (Investigation: Supporting)
Yuya Sato (Investigation: Supporting)
Toshihiro Uesaka (Investigation: Supporting)
Mitsuhiro Iwasaki (Methodology: Supporting)
Hideki Enomoto (Conceptualization: Lead; Data curation: Lead; Formal
analysis: Lead; Funding acquisition: Lead; Methodology: Lead; Project
administration: Lead; Resources: Equal; Supervision: Lead; Validation: Lead;
Writing – review & editing: Lead)
Conflicts of interest
The authors disclose no conflicts.
Funding
Supported by Grant-in-Aid from MEXT, Japan Society for the Promotion of
Science, Japan, Grant 20K21526, Japan Intractable Diseases Research
Foundation, and The Ichiro Kanehara Foundation for the Promotion of
Medical Sciences and Medical Care.
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