Singular effects of PPAR agonists on nonalcoholic fatty liver disease of diet-induced obese mice

The WY14643 and bezafibrate treatments most effectively improved the adverse metabolic and hepatic effects caused by obesity and IR. The results reinforce the central role of PPARalpha, as well as its contrary relationship to PPARgamma in the regulation of metabolic homeostasis and lipolytic pathways in the liver.