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The clinical trials used four-week intervals for standardization, not because four weeks is the medically optimal adaptation period for every individual
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HDAC inhibitors have also been shown to increase neuronal differentiation of embryonic mouse neural stem cells (Siebzehnrubl et al., 2007)