Nature Communications (Jun 2019)

Reduced subcutaneous adipogenesis in human hypertrophic obesity is linked to senescent precursor cells

  • Birgit Gustafson,
  • Annika Nerstedt,
  • Ulf Smith

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10688-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Adipose tissue hypertrophy in obesity is associated with insulin resistance and other metabolic complications. Here, the authors analyze subcutaneous adipose tissue from patients with hypertrophic obesity and insulin resistance and find that adipocyte progenitor cells show features of senescence and have poor differentiation capacity.