PPAR Research
Volume 2009 (2009), Article ID 345320, 13 pages
doi:10.1155/2009/345320
Review Article

Obesity and Breast Cancer: The Roles of Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor-γ and Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor-1

Jennifer C. Carter1 and Frank C. Church1,2,3

1Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7035, USA
2Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
3Division of Hematology-Oncology, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA

Received 3 February 2009; Revised 18 May 2009; Accepted 10 June 2009

Academic Editor: Sarah J. Roberts-Thomson

Copyright © 2009 Jennifer C. Carter and Frank C. Church. 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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