Review Article

Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor-γ Is Critical to Cardiac Fibrosis

Table 1

Tissue and cell distribution of PPAR mRNA transcripts. Modified from [13].

PPAR mRNA transcriptsTissue and cell distribution

PPAR1Cardiac muscle, skeletal muscle, kidney, adrenal, spleen, intestine, pancreatic β-cells, and vascular smooth muscle cells
PPAR2Adipose tissue
PPAR3Adipose tissue, colon, and macrophages
PPAR4Macrophages
PPAR5Macrophages
PPAR6Macrophages and adipose tissue
PPAR7Macrophages and adipose tissue