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Access through your institution Buy or subscribe A protein molecule secreted by muscles during exercise boosts the expression of factors that help to protect brain neurons. Endurance

exercise is known to induce production of a protein called irisin and to improve cognitive performance in patients with some neurological conditions, but the mechanism linking these

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