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"Funding A.C. and I.P. acknowledge the support by Swansea University through the College of Engineering Zienkiewicz/Centenary scholarship. O.F.H. was supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (R01HL169681), the National Institute of Aging (R21AG082193), the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (P20GM135007), the American Heart Association (20CDA35310097), the Totman Medical Research Trust, the Larner College of Medicine, University of Vermont, the Bloomfield Professorship in Cardiovascular Research, and the Cardiovascular Research Institute of Vermont."