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Nutritional Neuroscience
An International Journal on Nutrition, Diet and Nervous System
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Maternal vitamin D supplementation and treadmill exercise attenuated vitamin D deficiency-induced anxiety-and depressive-like behaviors in adult male offspring rats

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