Solution

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Interpret the Stratonovich integral in its standard extension to continuous semimartingale integrands:
This extension is needed because is generally a semimartingale rather than a local martingale. Also the introductory prose in the PDF reverses integrand and integrator relative to its displayed definition; the displayed definition fixes the convention used here.
Apply the Itô formula to , using :
The continuous finite-variation process in the second term has zero quadratic covariation with , while the quadratic covariation rule for an Itô integral gives
A second application of the Itô formula, now to , therefore yields
All unbounded coefficients are handled by stopping on compact spatial intervals, then removing the localizing sequence.

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