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Milestone payment due upon approval of upon disclosure agreement.

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Amount of sale of financial instrument classified as an asset measured using unobservable inputs that reflect the entity's own assumption about the assumptions market participants would use in pricing.

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Value of input used to measure long-term debt.

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