PPARG and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: Further, in NE-COPD, where PPARγ macrophages were relatively increased, pairwise comparisons of ligand-receptor activities predicted increased interactions between PPARγ macrophages with NR3C1+ CD4 T cells through integrins, cell adhesion molecules and chemokine/cytokine receptors such as ITGB2, ALCAM, and CXCR4 (Supplementary Fig. 7a–c).