“…In a genetically modified animal model, intestinal tumorigenesis, but not colon carcinogenesis, was increased in response to GW501516 (Gupta et al, 2004). On the other hand, mice lacking PPAR␦ have an increased predisposition to intestinal tumors (Reed et al, 2004); other reports suggest that ligand activation of PPAR␦ is without effect (Hollingshead et al, 2007) or, in fact, inhibits growth of human cancer cell lines (Bility et al, 2008;Borland et al, 2008) and colon carcinogenesis in mice (Marin et al, 2006). PPAR␦ is a key regulator of skeletal muscle lipid oxidation, and, as outlined in section III, activation of PPAR␦ should have many potential beneficial effects in the context of metabolic disease.…”