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The study also spotted differences in the newly described cell types depending on which tissue they were taken from. Unconventional adipocytes from visceral fat seemed more likely to communicate with ...

CellGenTech, headquartered in Chiba, Japan, is pioneering the use of a new cell type—adipocytes suitable for gene therapy—for ex vivo applications in a range of diseases caused by single-gene ...

The impact of obesity and obesity-associated type 2 diabetes (T2D ... and uroguanylin trigger lipolysis in human visceral adipocytes. Given the lipolytic action of the guanylin system on visceral ...