Acknowledgement
This research was supported by Ministry of Food and Drug Safety in 2023 (grant number: 23212MFDS265) and Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea funded by the Ministry of Education (grant number: 2021K1A4A7A0209775712).
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