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Effect of prenatal peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor alpha (PPARalpha) agonism on postnatal development.
Toxicology - 30 Sept 2010
Palkar Prajakta S, Anderson Cherie R, Ferry Christina H, Gonzalez Frank J, Peters Jeffrey M
Abstract excerpt
Recent work indicates that PPARalpha is required for perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA)-induced postnatal lethality resulting from prenatal exposure. The present study tested the hypothesis that relatively modest activation of PPARalpha during prenatal development will cause postnatal lethality, similar to that observed with PFOA, a relatively low affinity PPARalpha agonist. Female wild-type and Pparalpha-null mice...
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