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Siwen Yang1, Jingmin Yan1, Lulu Yang1

  • 1School of Life Sciences, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, Jilin 130024, PR China.

International Journal of Biological Macromolecules
|December 31, 2018
PubMed

Keywords:
Insulin resistanceMushrooms polysaccharidesType 2 diabetes

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