PPARG and atherosclerosis: Using specific primers pairs (Table 1), we performed an extensive expression analysis of PPARG1, PPARG2, PPARG3, PPARG4, and ORF4 in tissues and cells related to complications of metabolic syndrome—such as altered glucose and lipids' metabolism (liver), increased inflammatory response (macrophages), atherosclerosis (EPCs, heart, and macrophages), cancer (colon carcinoma and MCF7), and thyroid dysfunction (thyroid)—and in a widely used cell model, HEK293 [3, 6, 17, 39, 40].