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"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateExperimental procedures were conducted according to the ethical guidelines for the care and use of laboratory animals. Experiments were approved by the local animal care committee (Regierungspräsidium Karlsruhe, Germany: AZ:35-9185.81/G-227/20). Consent for publicationNot applicable. Competing interestsThe authors declare that they have no competing interests. Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests."

"Funding Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL. Financial support for this work was provided by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation)—Project-ID 402170461 (A05)—TRR 265, Heinz et al. [69] to RS and Project-ID: ME 5279/3-1 to MWM as well as the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) funded E:med program: Target-OXY (FKZ: 031L0190A) to RS and JCF, and the BMBF-funded SysMedSUDs consortium (FKZ: 01ZX1909A) to RS."