“…RORα has been detected in many tissues including brain, thymus, skeletal muscle, skin, heart, vessels, liver, lung, gut, kidney tubules, whisker follicles and pancreas (15,(18)(19)(20). In the brain, in situ hybridization and immunohistochemical analyses revealed Rora expression in the cerebellum, in olfactory bulb, hippocampus, thalamus, cerebral cortex (mainly in layer IV), suprachiasmatic nuclei of the hypothalamus and retinal ganglion cells (18,21,22).…”