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Acknowledgements
This work was financially supported by Sunstar Inc. This study was also supported in part by JSPS KAKENHI
Grant (KO/No. 22H02286). We performed a collaborative research to reveal the bioactivity related to the rice
bran protein digest.
Author contributions
K.O. supervised and designed the experiments; M.S., N.S. and B.Z. with help from K.K. performed the experiments and analyzed the data; M.S. and K.O. wrote the paper; and all authors discussed the results and the
manuscript.
Funding
The authors received financially support from SUNSTAR Inc.
Competing interests The authors declare no competing interests.
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