Adipose-tissue plasticity in health and disease

A Sakers, MK De Siqueira, P Seale, CJ Villanueva - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Adipose tissue, colloquially known as" fat," is an extraordinarily flexible and heterogeneous
organ. While historically viewed as a passive site for energy storage, we now appreciate that …

The aetiology and molecular landscape of insulin resistance

DE James, J Stöckli, MJ Birnbaum - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2021 - nature.com
Insulin resistance, defined as a defect in insulin-mediated control of glucose metabolism in
tissues—prominently in muscle, fat and liver—is one of the earliest manifestations of a …

Adiponectin, leptin and cardiovascular disorders

S Zhao, CM Kusminski, PE Scherer - Circulation research, 2021 - Am Heart Assoc
The landmark discoveries of leptin and adiponectin firmly established adipose tissue as a
sophisticated and highly active endocrine organ, opening a new era of investigating adipose …

Browning of the white adipose tissue regulation: New insights into nutritional and metabolic relevance in health and diseases

SA Machado, G Pasquarelli-do-Nascimento… - Nutrition & …, 2022 - Springer
Adipose tissues are dynamic tissues that play crucial physiological roles in maintaining
health and homeostasis. Although white adipose tissue and brown adipose tissue are …

Adipogenesis and metabolic health

AL Ghaben, PE Scherer - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2019 - nature.com
Obesity is characterized by increased adipose tissue mass and has been associated with a
strong predisposition towards metabolic diseases and cancer. Thus, it constitutes a public …

[HTML][HTML] Plasticity of epididymal adipose tissue in response to diet-induced obesity at single-nucleus resolution

AK Sárvári, EL Van Hauwaert, LK Markussen… - Cell metabolism, 2021 - cell.com
Adipose tissues display a remarkable ability to adapt to the dietary status. Here, we have
applied single-nucleus RNA-seq to map the plasticity of mouse epididymal white adipose …

Contribution of adipogenesis to healthy adipose tissue expansion in obesity

L Vishvanath, RK Gupta - The Journal of clinical …, 2019 - Am Soc Clin Investig
The manner in which white adipose tissue (WAT) expands and remodels directly impacts the
risk of developing metabolic syndrome in obesity. Preferential accumulation of visceral WAT …

An integrated single cell and spatial transcriptomic map of human white adipose tissue

L Massier, J Jalkanen, M Elmastas, J Zhong… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
To date, single-cell studies of human white adipose tissue (WAT) have been based on small
cohort sizes and no cellular consensus nomenclature exists. Herein, we performed a …

Adipose tissue fibrosis in obesity: etiology and challenges

G Marcelin, EL Gautier, K Clément - Annual review of physiology, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Obesity is a chronic and progressive process affecting whole-body energy balance and is
associated with comorbidity development. In addition to increased fat mass, obesity induces …

Identification of a mesenchymal progenitor cell hierarchy in adipose tissue

D Merrick, A Sakers, Z Irgebay, C Okada, C Calvert… - Science, 2019 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Adipose tissue is a highly plastic organ that plays a central role in
regulating whole-body energy metabolism. The capacity for adipocytes to store chemical …