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  • 1Department of Internal Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, 160-8582, Japan.

Journal of the Endocrine Society
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Keywords:
exercise enduranceglucose tolerancehistone acetylationintermittent fastinglipid oxidationmitochondria

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