Browsing Harvard Medical School by Keyword "adipogenesis"

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    • ATF4 licenses C/EBPβ activity in human mesenchymal stem cells primed for adipogenesis 

      Cohen, Daniel M; Won, Kyoung-Jae; Nguyen, Nha; Lazar, Mitchell A; Chen, Christopher S; Steger, David J (eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd, 2015)
      A well-established cascade of transcription factor (TF) activity orchestrates adipogenesis in response to chemical cues, yet how cell-intrinsic determinants of differentiation such as cell shape and/or seeding density ...

    • Brown adipose tissue 

      Townsend, Kristy L; Tseng, Yu-Hua (Landes Bioscience, 2012)
      Obesity is currently a global pandemic, and is associated with increased mortality and co-morbidities including many metabolic diseases. Obesity is characterized by an increase in adipose mass due to increased energy intake, ...

    • Deficiency of FcεR1 increases body weight gain but improves glucose tolerance in diet-induced obese mice 

      Lee, Yun-Jung; Liu, Conglin; Liao, Mengyang; Sukhova, Galina K.; Shirakawa, Jun; Abdennour, Meriem; Iamarene, Karine; Andre, Sebastien; Inouye, Karen; Clement, Karine; Kulkarni, Rohit Narayan; Banks, Alexander; Libby, Peter; Shi, Guo-Ping (Endocrine Society, 2015)
      Prior studies demonstrated increased plasma immunoglobulin E (IgE) in diabetic patients, but the direct participation of IgE in diabetes or obesity remains unknown. This study found that plasma IgE levels correlated inversely ...