PPARα as a Transcriptional Regulator for Detoxification of Plant Diet-Derived Unfavorable Compounds

Plants contain potentially toxic compounds for animals and animals have developed physiological strategies to detoxify the ingested toxins during evolution. Feeding mice with various plant seeds and grains showed unexpected result that only sesame killed PPARα-null mice but not wild-type mice at all...

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Main Authors: Bunichiro Ashibe, Yu Nakajima, Yuka Fukui, Kiyoto Motojima
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2012-01-01
Series:PPAR Research
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/814945