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    energy as fat. Adipocytes are derived from mesenchymal stem cells which give rise to adipocytes through adipogenesis. In cell culture, adipocyte progenitors...
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    body fat or simply fat) is a loose connective tissue composed mostly of adipocytes. It also contains the stromal vascular fraction (SVF) of cells including...
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    aP2 (adipocyte Protein 2) is a carrier protein for fatty acids that is primarily expressed in adipocytes and macrophages. aP2 is also called fatty acid...
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    mobilize stored energy during fasting or exercise, and usually occurs in fat adipocytes. The most important regulatory hormone in lipolysis is insulin; lipolysis...
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    Adipogenesis is the formation of adipocytes (fat cells) from stem cells. It involves 2 phases, determination, and terminal differentiation. Determination...
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    conditions, the cells differentiate into an adipocyte-like phenotype, providing an exemplar model for white adipocytes. 3T3-L1 cells can be utilized to study...
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    deposits. The second develops from white adipocytes that are stimulated by the sympathetic nervous system. These adipocytes are found interspersed in white adipose...
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    A lipoblast is a precursor cell for an adipocyte. Alternate terms include adipoblast and preadipocyte. Early stages are almost indistinguishable from...
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    differentiated from adipocyte-like cells by their cytoplasm and nucleus; ballooned cells have their nucleus in the centre (unlike adipocyte-like cells, which...
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    shown to be downregulated during the differentiation of adipocytes. miR-27 inhibits adipocyte formation when overexpressed, acting by blocking the expression...
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    lipogenesis, and triglyceride synthesis, inhibition of adipocyte lipogenesis, inhibition of adipocyte lipolysis, and modulation of insulin secretion by pancreatic...
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    as a transcription coregulator that controls the development of brown adipocytes in brown adipose tissue. Previously, this coregulator was believed to...
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    (LDs) in adipocytes, the fat-storing cells in adipose tissue. In fact, PLIN1 is greatly expressed in white adipocytes. It controls adipocyte lipid metabolism...
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    corrects contour defects of the breast hemisphere with grafts of the adipocyte fat tissue, drawn from the body of the woman. In a breast reconstruction...
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    Adipocyte Enhancer-Binding Protein is a zinc finger protein that in humans is encoded by the evolutionarily well-conserved gene AEBP2. It was initially...
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    agents such as bisphosphonates, teriparatide, and metformin. Bone marrow adipocytes (BMAds) originate from mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) progenitors that also...
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  • feature of many vertebrate cell types, especially endothelial cells, adipocytes and embryonic notochord cells. They were originally discovered by E. Yamada...
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    gland, (4) Arrector pili muscle, (5) dermis, (6) hair follicle, (7) sweat gland. Not labelled, the bottom layer: hypodermis, showing round adipocytes...
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    to adipose tissue, including: physical trauma, enzymatic digestion of adipocytes by lipases, radiation therapy, hypoxia, or inflammation of subcutaneous...
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  • adipose tissue. Besides adipocytes, adipose tissue contains the stromal vascular fraction (SVF) of cells that includes pre-adipocytes, fibroblasts, vascular...
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    chronic inflammation. IL-6 Cytokine and Myokine Macrophages, osteoblasts, adipocytes, and smooth muscle cells (cytokine) Skeletal muscle cells (myokine) Pro-inflammatory...
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    Long-term live cell imaging (12h) of multinucleated mouse pre-Adipocyte trying to undergo mitosis. Due to the excess of genetic material the cell fails...
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    glycerol 3-phosphate: ATP + glycerol <=> ADP + sn-glycerol 3-phosphate Adipocytes lack glycerol kinase so they cannot metabolize the glycerol produced during...
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    brown adipose tissue. White adipose tissue is composed of monolocular adipocytes. In humans, the healthy amount of white adipose tissue varies with age...
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    show no change in white adipocytes, but do display reduced expression of the marker genes directly involved in brown adipocyte expression. Tbx15 is noteworthy...
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    pathophysiology of the disease. When the hESCs are differentiated into adipocytes, gene expression data from these fat cells reveal a downregulation or...
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    repression of specific genes is an increase in the storage of fatty acids in adipocytes, thereby decreasing the amount of fatty acids present in circulation....
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    (bone cells), chondrocytes (cartilage cells), myocytes (muscle cells) and adipocytes (fat cells which give rise to marrow adipose tissue). The primary function...
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    Properties in Bone Marrow-Derived Mesenchymal Stromal cells via Regulation of Adipocyte and Osteoblast Differentiation". Stem Cells International. 2021: 1–17...
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    Wagner C, Dähnhardt HE, Košić K, Meng Y, Taschler U, et al. (July 2024). "Adipocyte HSL is required for maintaining circulating vitamin A and RBP4 levels...
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