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Characterization of the adipocyte cellular lineage in vivo

Ryan Berry, +1 more
- 01 Mar 2013 - 
- Vol. 15, Iss: 3, pp 302-308
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A model where the CD24+ adipocyte progenitors become further committed to the adipocyte lineage as CD24 expression is lost, generating CD24− preadipocytes is proposed.
Abstract
Adipocytes have been suggested to arise from prospective progenitors of endothelial or haematopoietic origin. Rodeheffer and colleagues use lineage tracing to rule out that this is the case for white adipocytes, and show that they instead arise from CD24+ cells that are characterized by the expression of PdgfR (platelet-derived growth factor receptor).

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