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This work was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China to Hong Chen (No. 30971154, 31171099) and Wen-hui Zhang (No. 81373468). We are grateful to Dr. Hai Su, Wei-li Shen and Yoshinori Aragane for engaging in active discussions.
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All authors contributed to performing the research by participating in the walking process and making records and/or by helping to develop the research; HC, RZ, QL and Y-xL collected urine samples, performed ELISA tests, and analyzed the data; Hong Chen and Hideaki Higashino designed the research and wrote and edited the manuscript; and all authors reviewed and approved the manuscript.
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Zhang, R., Chen, H., Liu, Yx. et al. Sunny walking counts more. Acta Pharmacol Sin 40, 1256–1257 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41401-019-0241-9
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