Microenvironmental Control of Adipocyte Fate and Function

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• 作者：Benjamin D. Pope¹ ; ² ; Curtis R. Warren² ; Kevin Kit Parker¹ ; ³ ; Chad A. Cowan² ; ⁴ ; ^{chad_cowan@harvard.edu" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author}
• 关键词：adipose development ; metabolic disease ; extracellular matrix ; biomechanics ; signal transduction ; tissue engineering.
• 刊名：Trends in Cell Biology
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：October 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：26
• 期：10
• 页码：745-755
• 全文大小：2525 K

文摘

The properties of tissue-specific microenvironments vary widely in the human body and demonstrably influence the structure and function of many cell types. Adipocytes are no exception, responding to cues in specialized niches to perform vital metabolic and endocrine functions. The adipose microenvironment is remodeled during tissue expansion to maintain the structural and functional integrity of the tissue and disrupted remodeling in obesity contributes to the progression of metabolic syndrome, breast cancer, and other malignancies. The increasing incidence of these obesity-related diseases and the recent focus on improved in vitro models of human tissue biology underscore growing interest in the regulatory role of adipocyte microenvironments in health and disease.