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Nature Cell Biology 7, 543 - 545 (2005)
doi:10.1038/ncb0605-543

Fickle factor foils fat fate

Ormond A. MacDougald1 & Charles F. Burant1

  1. Ormond A. MacDougald and Charles F. Burant are at the Departments of Molecular and Integrative Physiology and Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA. e-mail: macdouga@umich.edu


Factors that determine whether precursor cells will differentiate into adipocytes remain poorly understood. A systematic evaluation of gene expression in cells with a continuum of differentiation potentials has confirmed the importance of certain pathways and has identified a novel regulator of brown adipogenesis.

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