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This work was supported by the Intramural Research Program of the National Institute of Neurological
Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, USA (1ZIDNS003101-11) for KCH, CHL, KRJ, and
YCF. Grants from the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (Grant 107-2917-I-564-033), the
Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taiwan (MOHW107-TDU-B-212-123004), China Medical University
Hospital, Academia Sinica Stroke Biosignature Project (BM10701010021), MOST Clinical Trial Consortium
for Stroke (MOST 107-2321-B-039 -004-), Tseng-Lien Lin Foundation, Taichung, Taiwan, and Katsuzo and
Kiyo Aoshima Memorial Funds, Japan, for TSR investigators.

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