Acknowledgement
We thank the members of the Lim laboratory for their timely help throughout the study. This work was supported by the Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grants (2021R1A2C1004884 to H.-H.L.) and the Brain Research Program of the NRF (2020 M3E5D9079 to H.-H.L.) funded by the Ministry of Science and ICT, Republic of Korea, and the KBRI basic research program through Korea Brain Research Institute funded by the Ministry of Science and ICT (22-BR-01-02 to H.-H.L.).
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