PPAR Research
Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 780452, 10 pages
doi:10.1155/2008/780452
Review Article

Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor β/δ in the Brain: Facts and Hypothesis

Center of Integrative Genomics, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

Received 8 August 2008; Accepted 8 September 2008

Academic Editor: Francine M. Gregoire

Copyright © 2008 M. G. Hall et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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