Berberine: As A Therapeutic Target for TreatingObese Diabetes
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Copyright: © 2016 Haroon Khan. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. *Corresponding author: Haroon Khan, Department of Pharmacy, Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan 23200, Pakistan,Tel: 03329123171; E-mail: [email protected]
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