Dietary α-Eleostearic Acid Ameliorates Experimental Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Mice by Activating Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor-γ

Stephanie N. Lewis; Lera Brannan; Amir J. Guri; Pinyi Lu; Raquel Hontecillas; Josep Bassaganya-Riera; David R. Bevan

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0024031

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Dietary α-Eleostearic Acid Ameliorates Experimental Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Mice by Activating Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor-γ

Stephanie N. Lewis ,

* E-mail: snl@vt.edu

Affiliations Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology Program, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, Nutritional Immunology and Molecular Medicine Laboratory, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, Center for Modeling Immunology to Enteric Pathogens, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
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Lera Brannan,

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
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Amir J. Guri,

Affiliation Nutritional Immunology and Molecular Medicine Laboratory, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
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Pinyi Lu,

Affiliations Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology Program, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, Nutritional Immunology and Molecular Medicine Laboratory, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, Center for Modeling Immunology to Enteric Pathogens, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
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Raquel Hontecillas,

Affiliations Nutritional Immunology and Molecular Medicine Laboratory, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, Center for Modeling Immunology to Enteric Pathogens, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
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Josep Bassaganya-Riera,

Affiliations Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology Program, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, Nutritional Immunology and Molecular Medicine Laboratory, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, Center for Modeling Immunology to Enteric Pathogens, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
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David R. Bevan

Affiliations Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology Program, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, Center for Modeling Immunology to Enteric Pathogens, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
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Dietary α-Eleostearic Acid Ameliorates Experimental Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Mice by Activating Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor-γ

Stephanie N. Lewis,
Lera Brannan,
Amir J. Guri,
Pinyi Lu,
Raquel Hontecillas,
Josep Bassaganya-Riera,
David R. Bevan

Published: August 31, 2011
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0024031

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