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The pollutant diethylhexyl phthalate regulates hepatic energy metabolism via species-specific PPARalpha-dependent mechanisms.
Environmental health perspectives - 1 Feb 2010
Feige Jérôme N, Gerber Alan, Casals-Casas Cristina, Yang Qian, Winkler Carine, Bedu Elodie, Bueno Manuel, Gelman Laurent, Auwerx Johan, Gonzalez Frank J, Desvergne Béatrice
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BACKGROUND: The modulation of energetic homeostasis by pollutants has recently emerged as a potential contributor to the onset of metabolic disorders. Diethylhexyl phthalate (DEHP) is a widely used industrial plasticizer to which humans are widely exposed. Phthalates can activate the three peroxi...
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