Peroxisome proliferator activated receptors: In the early 1990s, seminal work on rodent liver demonstrated that the hypolipidemic effect of xenobiotics, referred to as peroxisome proliferators, was mediated by a memb...Peroxisome proliferator activated receptors: In the early 1990s, seminal work on rodent liver demonstrated that the hypolipidemic effect of xenobiotics, referred to as peroxisome proliferators, was mediated by a member of steroid hormone receptor superfamily, thus designated peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors (PPARs) (Issemann and Green, 1990; Dreyer et al., 1992). The research field opened by this discovery led to the identification of three isotypes, namely PPARa (NR1C1), PPAR[3/6 (NRIC2), PPARy (NRIC3), in a wide range of tissues. All these receptors act as ligand-activated transcription factors, binding lipid molecules with different, though overlapping, specificity.展开更多
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文摘Peroxisome proliferator activated receptors: In the early 1990s, seminal work on rodent liver demonstrated that the hypolipidemic effect of xenobiotics, referred to as peroxisome proliferators, was mediated by a member of steroid hormone receptor superfamily, thus designated peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors (PPARs) (Issemann and Green, 1990; Dreyer et al., 1992). The research field opened by this discovery led to the identification of three isotypes, namely PPARa (NR1C1), PPAR[3/6 (NRIC2), PPARy (NRIC3), in a wide range of tissues. All these receptors act as ligand-activated transcription factors, binding lipid molecules with different, though overlapping, specificity.