Acknowledgements We would like to thank the Kyoto Integrated Science & Technology Bio-Analysis Center for allowing us to use their LC-MS/MS (3200 QTRAP) and Editage (www.editage.jp) for English language editing
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At 1mg, the weight loss was 8.7% at 48 weeks