From multipotent stem cell to adipocyte
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M. Daniel Lane; Qi-Qun Tang
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Article
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2005
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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The increase of adipose tissue mass that accompanies obesity is due both to an increase in adipocyte number (hyperplasia) and size (hypertrophy) (Shepherd et al., 1993) (Fig. 1). Hyperplasia results from the recruitment of preadipose cells from a population of pluripotent stem cells that reside in t