Arsenic promotes metabolic disease through poorly understood mechanisms involving pathogenic remodeling of metabolic tissue. Low level arsenic exposure induced expression of miR-29b to impair human mesenchymal stem cell adipogenic differentiation. miR-29a disrupted adipogenesis involved sustained cyclin D expression that prevented cell cycle exit for differentiation. The work elucidated a novel mechanism for disruption of adipose metabolic homeostasis following arsenic exposure.ollowing arsenic exposure.