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Adipocytes

Known as: Mature Fat Cell, Cell, Fat, Lipocyte 
Cells in the body that store FATS, usually in the form of TRIGLYCERIDES. WHITE ADIPOCYTES are the predominant type and found mostly in the abdominal… 
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Highly Cited
2011
Highly Cited
2011
Adipocytes promote ovarian cancer metastasis and provide energy for rapid tumor growth
Intra-abdominal tumors, such as ovarian cancer, have a clear predilection for metastasis to the omentum, an organ primarily… 
Review
2010
Review
2010
Adipose tissue as an endocrine organ
Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
Chronic Peroxisome Proliferator-activated Receptor γ (PPARγ) Activation of Epididymally Derived White Adipocyte Cultures Reveals a Population of Thermogenically Competent, UCP1-containing Adipocytes…
The recent insight that brown adipocytes and muscle cells share a common origin and in this respect are distinct from white… 
Review
2006
Review
2006
Adipocytes as regulators of energy balance and glucose homeostasis
Adipocytes have been studied with increasing intensity as a result of the emergence of obesity as a serious public health problem… 
Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Minimal criteria for defining multipotent mesenchymal stromal cells. The International Society for Cellular Therapy position statement.
The considerable therapeutic potential of human multipotent mesenchymal stromal cells (MSC) has generated markedly increasing… 
Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Sirt1 promotes fat mobilization in white adipocytes by repressing PPAR-γ
Calorie restriction extends lifespan in organisms ranging from yeast to mammals. In yeast, the SIR2 gene mediates the life… 
Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Cell shape, cytoskeletal tension, and RhoA regulate stem cell lineage commitment.
Review
1998
Review
1998
Understanding adipocyte differentiation.
The adipocyte plays a critical role in energy balance. Adipose tissue growth involves an increase in adipocyte size and the… 
Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
A Novel Serum Protein Similar to C1q, Produced Exclusively in Adipocytes (*)
We describe a novel 30-kDa secretory protein, Acrp30 (adipocyte complement-related protein of 30 kDa), that is made exclusively… 
Highly Cited
1993
Highly Cited
1993
Adipose expression of tumor necrosis factor-alpha: direct role in obesity-linked insulin resistance.
Tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) has been shown to have certain catabolic effects on fat cells and whole animals. An… 
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