It took several years of further experiments and analysis, but During and his colleagues ultimately concluded that the mild stress of all that activity and interaction activated a communication channel that prompts fat cells to stop releasing a hormone called leptin, which accelerates cancer growth.

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Now, maybe the one-room metaphor is not the best metaphor, because it immediately prompts the question, "Well, what's on the other side of the wall?"

也许一间房的比喻并不是最好的,因为它立刻会引出这个问题,墙的另一边是什么呢

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But this prompts a different move on the part of the defender of souls.

但这引发了灵魂辩护者的,一个迥然的进程

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And that's what prompts the series of arguments.

这就催生了一系列的论证

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