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Received: 8 July 2020

Accepted: 17 December 2020

First Online: 11 January 2021

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: Animal experiments discussed in this study were approved by the Lower Saxony State Office for Consumer Protection and Food Safety (Niedersächsisches Landesamt für Verbraucherschutz und Lebensmittelsicherheit), which is the local authority for the laboratory experiments performed. Animals were euthanized with CO₂ and immediately processed for intracardial perfusion, with minor adaptations from Gage et al., (2012) [CitationRef removed] as described in the methods section. Animal experiments in the case of the P56 mice were approved by the committee for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals of the Government of Upper Bavaria, Germany and conducted according to current regulations for animal experimentation in Germany and the European Union (European Communities Council Directive 86/609/EEC). Euthanasia of the P56 mice was performed under isoflurane anesthesia (5% dose, Forene®, Abbott, Wiesbaden, Germany).

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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.