Adipose tissue at single-cell resolution

B Maniyadath, Q Zhang, RK Gupta, S Mandrup - Cell metabolism, 2023 - cell.com
Adipose tissue exhibits remarkable plasticity with capacity to change in size and cellular
composition under physiological and pathophysiological conditions. The emergence of …

Mesenchymal stromal cells as conductors of adipose tissue remodeling

J Cannavino, RK Gupta - Genes & Development, 2023 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Adipose tissue exhibits a remarkable capacity to expand, contract, and remodel in response
to changes in physiological and environmental conditions. Here, we describe recent …

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 …

Single-cell dissection of the obesity-exercise axis in adipose-muscle tissues implies a critical role for mesenchymal stem cells

J Yang, M Vamvini, P Nigro, LL Ho, K Galani, M Alvarez… - Cell metabolism, 2022 - cell.com
Exercise training is critical for the prevention and treatment of obesity, but its underlying
mechanisms remain incompletely understood given the challenge of profiling …

Unsupervised removal of systematic background noise from droplet-based single-cell experiments using CellBender

SJ Fleming, MD Chaffin, A Arduini, AD Akkad… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Droplet-based single-cell assays, including single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq),
single-nucleus RNA sequencing (snRNA-seq) and cellular indexing of transcriptomes and …

Wnt signaling preserves progenitor cell multipotency during adipose tissue development

Z Yang Loureiro, S Joyce, T DeSouza… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Mesenchymal stem/progenitor cells are essential for tissue development and repair
throughout life, but how they are maintained under chronic differentiation pressure is not …

Deconstructing cold-induced brown adipocyte neogenesis in mice

RB Burl, EA Rondini, H Wei, R Pique-Regi… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Cold exposure triggers neogenesis in classic interscapular brown adipose tissue (iBAT) that
involves activation of β1-adrenergic receptors, proliferation of PDGFRA+ adipose tissue …

Importance of the microenvironment and mechanosensing in adipose tissue biology

S Lecoutre, M Lambert, K Drygalski, I Dugail… - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
The expansion of adipose tissue is an adaptive mechanism that increases nutrient buffering
capacity in response to an overall positive energy balance. Over the course of expansion …

Retinoic acid signaling in development and differentiation commitment and its regulatory topology

D Wu, FA Khan, K Zhang, NS Pandupuspitasari… - Chemico-Biological …, 2024 - Elsevier
Retinoic acid (RA), the derivative of vitamin A/retinol, is a signaling molecule with important
implications in health and disease. It is a well-known developmental morphogen that …

MME+ fibro-adipogenic progenitors are the dominant adipogenic population during fatty infiltration in human skeletal muscle

G Fitzgerald, G Turiel, T Gorski, I Soro-Arnaiz… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Fatty infiltration, the ectopic deposition of adipose tissue within skeletal muscle, is mediated
via the adipogenic differentiation of fibro-adipogenic progenitors (FAPs). We used single …