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Dae Yun Seo1, Se Hwan Park2, Jubert Marquez1

  • 1National Research Laboratory for Mitochondrial Signaling, Department of Physiology, BK21 Plus Project Team, College of Medicine, Smart Marine Therapeutics Center, Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disease Center, Inje University, Busan 47392, Korea.

Journal of Clinical Medicine
|January 27, 2021
PubMed

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FGF21angiopoietin-like protein 4exercisefetuin-Afollistatinhepatokines

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