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Acknowledgments This work was partly supported by grant FCE 103356 from ANII and grant
#167 from Wings for Life Spinal Cord Research Foundation to RER. The authors would like to
thank the kind donation of GATA3-GFP transgenic mice by Dr. Stavros Malas, The Cyprus
Institute of Neurology and Genetics, Cyprus.
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