Evaluation of human dermal fibroblasts directly reprogrammed to adipocyte-like cells as a metabolic disease model

Adipose tissue is the primary tissue affected in most single gene forms of severe insulin resistance, and growing evidence has implicated it as a site at which many risk alleles for insulin resistance identified in population-wide studies might exert their effect. There is thus increasing need for h...

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Main Authors: Jian-Hua Chen, Kim Jee Goh, Nuno Rocha, Matthijs P. Groeneveld, Marina Minic, Timothy G. Barrett, David Savage, Robert K. Semple
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Company of Biologists 2017-12-01
Series:Disease Models & Mechanisms
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Online Access:http://dmm.biologists.org/content/10/12/1411