Effects of exercise training on type 2-diabetes: the role of Meteorinlike protein

Ayoub Saeidi ¹, Seyed Morteza Tayebi ² * , Abedin Khosravi ³, Fatemeh Malekian ⁴, Arash Khodamoradi ¹, Maha Sellami ⁵, Abderraouf Ben Abderrahman ⁶, Hassane Zouhal ⁷ *

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