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October 2024 in “World Journal of Psychiatry” Stress worsens hair loss in androgenetic alopecia.
January 2023 in “Discovery medicine” Cepharanthine helps reduce cell aging caused by the cancer drug Doxorubicin by boosting cell cleanup processes.
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