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"Funding statement: The authors disclose receipt of the following financial or material support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: funding by a grant from the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (MOST-109-2314-B-037-016-MY2), Kaohsiung Municipal Siaogang Hospital, Taiwan (H-110-002), and the Regenerative Medicine and Cell Therapy Research Center, Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan (KMU-TC109A02-5), Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital (KMUH107-7R52).: ICMJE COI statement: The investigators declare no conflicts of interest.: Acknowledgements: We acknowledge Professor Hung-Pin Tu, who helped to perform the statistical analysis in this study.: Ethical review statement: The animal experiment protocol was conducted following the ARRIVE guidelines, and approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees (Kaohsiung Medical University) with the approval number (KMU-107193).: Open access funding: The authors report that they received open access funding for their manuscript from Kaohsiung Municipal Siaogang Hospital (H-110-002).: Supplementary material: An ARRIVE checklist is included to show that the ARRIVE guidelines were adhered to in this study."

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