PPAR Research
Volume 2009 (2009), Article ID 193413, 8 pages
doi:10.1155/2009/193413
Research Article

Regulation of Translational Efficiency by Disparate 5′-UTRs of PPARγ Splice Variants

Shawn McClelland, Roopali Shrivastava, and Jheem D. Medh

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA 91330-8262, USA

Received 30 June 2009; Accepted 1 September 2009

Academic Editor: Mostafa Badr

Copyright © 2009 Shawn McClelland 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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