Acknowledgments
This study was supported by Health Sciences Research Grants for Medical Frontier Strategy Research from the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare of Japan and by grants-in-aid for scientific research from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan. We thank the Mitsubishi Pharma Corporation for the donation of MCC-478. We also thank Mitsuko Tsubouchi for technical assistance.
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