However, some weight regain tends to occur after stopping treatment
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Brain Capillary Endothelial Cells Mediate Iron Transport into the Brain by Segregating Iron from Transferrin without the Involvement of Divalent Metal Transporter 1
On one hand, disturbances in cerebral energy metabolism can directly trigger or exacerbate neuroinflammatory responses [7]
