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"Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest."

"The work was supported by Technological Innovation 2030-Major Projects of Brain Science and Brain-like Research (Grant No.: 2022ZD0206200), the 10.13039/501100001809Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos.: 31872796 and 82030108 to W. Yang; 32071102 to P. Yu), the National Major Special Project on New Drug Innovation of China (Grant No.: 2018ZX09711001-004-005), the key research and development program of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (Grant No.: 2019BFH02003), Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China (Grant No.: 2016QNA7002 to P. Yu), and Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation (Grant No.: LR16H090001 to W. Yang). We thank J. Chen and Q. Huang from the Core Facilities, Zhejiang University School of Medicine for their technical support."