Hypertrophy and/or Hyperplasia: Dynamics of Adipose Tissue Growth.

Adipose tissue grows by two mechanisms: hyperplasia (cell number increase) and hypertrophy (cell size increase). Genetics and diet affect the relative contributions of these two mechanisms to the growth of adipose tissue in obesity. In this study, the size distributions of epididymal adipose cells f...

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Main Authors: Junghyo Jo, Oksana Gavrilova, Stephanie Pack, William Jou, Shawn Mullen, Anne E Sumner, Samuel W Cushman, Vipul Periwal
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-03-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2653640?pdf=render