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This study was supported by a grant (Grant No. 43006460) from Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences.

Endocrine Physiology Research Center, Research Institute for Endocrine Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Asghar Ghasemi, Sajad Jeddi & Nasibeh Yousefzadeh

Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Biomedical Sciences, Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education, City University of New York School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA

Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Dezful University of Medical Sciences, Dezful, Iran

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