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Author notes

1. Sara Cruciani

   Present address: Department of Reparative and Regenerative Medicine, Rinaldi Fontani Institute, 50144, Florence, Italy

2. Salvatore Rinaldi

   Present address: Research Department, Rinaldi Fontani Foundation, 50144, Florence, Italy

3. Sara Cruciani and Salvatore Rinaldi have contributed equally to this work.

Authors and Affiliations

1. Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sassari, 07100, Sassari, Italy

   Sara Cruciani & Margherita Maioli

2. Department of Reparative and Regenerative Medicine, Rinaldi Fontani Institute, 50144, Florence, Italy

   Salvatore Rinaldi, Vania Fontani & Margherita Maioli

3. Research Department, Rinaldi Fontani Foundation, 50144, Florence, Italy

   Vania Fontani

Contributions

Conceptualization, SR, SC, VF. and MM.; methodology, SR, SC, VF. and MM; validation, SR, SC, VF and MM; formal analysis, SC, MM, SR, and VF; investigation, SR, SC, VF and MM; data curation, SR, SC, VF and MM; writing—original draft preparation, SR, SC, VF. and MM; writing—review and editing, SR, SC, VF. and MM; visualization, SC, MM.; supervision, SR, and MM; project administration, SR, VF and MM.; funding acquisition, SR, VF and MM. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

Competing interests

SR and VF are the authors of the REAC technology patent. The other authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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