Sentences with phrase «white fat precursor»

Detection of this CD29 marker eventually may help in selecting white fat precursor cells that can be transformed for obesity treatments, Dr. Tseng comments.

Now, however, a team of researchers led by Yu - Hua Tseng, Ph.D., Investigator in the Section on Integrative Physiology and Metabolism at Joslin Diabetes Center and an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, has created cell lines of human brown and white fat precursor cells that will help investigators to pick apart the factors that drive the development and activity of each type of cell.

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Activating RXR triggered a cascade of changes in muscle precursor cells and white fat that ultimately converted them into brown fat - like cells.

Much like chemotherapy's well - known ability to decrease red and white blood cell precursors transiently, methotrexate or cyclophosphamide depleted fat cell precursors, leading to much decreased fat storage.

Previous studies have revealed that exercise induces the production of irisin and its precursor molecule, FNDC5 (fibronectin - type III domain - containing 5) protein, which convert white fat tissue into beneficial, calorie - burning brown fat.

The cell lines will allow scientists to study gene expression in precursor brown fat and white fat cells, and in the mature fat cells these cells create.

In analyses of the cell lines, precursor white fat cells from two subjects responded strongly to BMP7 but such cells from the other two subjects did not.

In one example, Dr. Tseng's group previously had shown that exposing precursor white fat cells to a protein known as BMP7 helps to spur the creation of brown fat cells.

Another cell, called a beige fat cell, is an energy - burning cell that comes from the same precursor cell as white fat cells.

In these early phases, skeletal muscle cells and white fat cells have a shared precursor cell.