AO: Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing—original draft, Data curation, Writing—review & editing. Takao M and Tadaaki M: Supervision, Validation, Data curation, Writing—review & editing. All authors read and approved the submitted version.
Conflicts of interest
Takao Mori is an employee of LAB Biotech Co., Ltd., which provided funding for this study. He contributed to supervision and validation. The other authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.
Ethical approval
All animal experiments were approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) of Hokkaido University (protocol No. 23-0077) and were conducted in accordance with relevant institutional guidelines and regulations.
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The sequencing data and all data supporting the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.
Funding
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