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10.10 Acknowledgments

We acknowledge financial support from the MICINN (projects MAT 2007–
66275-C02–01, MAT 2009-14195-C03-03 and PSE-300100-2006-1), the JCyL
(projects VA034A09 and VA030A08), the CIBER-BBN (project CB06-01-
0003), the JCyL and the Instituto de Salud Carlos III under the ‘Network
Center of Regenerative Medicine and Cellular Therapy of Castilla and
León’ and the COST Action 868.

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