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PPAR Research
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 504918, 16 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/504918
Review Article

PPAR Medicines and Human Disease: The ABCs of It All

Anthony J. Apostoli1,2 and Christopher J. B. Nicol1,2,3

1Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada K7L 3N6
2Cancer Biology and Genetics Division, Cancer Research Institute, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada K7L 3N6
3Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada K7L 3N6

Received 24 February 2012; Revised 4 April 2012; Accepted 6 April 2012

Academic Editor: Yuji Kamijo

Copyright © 2012 Anthony J. Apostoli and Christopher J. B. Nicol. 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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