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Obesity Pathogenesis

Rosiglitazone promotes adipocyte population from bone marrow-derived circulating progenitor cells

Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, December 18th, 2006

In a study appearing in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, researchers from the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center show that in mice, adipocytes can be generated from progenitor cells originating in the bone marrow following treatment with a diabetes medication.

Dwight Klemm and colleagues transplanted mice with bone marrow marked with a fluorescent protein and found that when these mice were treated with the drug rosiglitazone (which is used to treat individuals with type 2 diabetes) adipocytes expressing the fluorescent marker could be detected in the adipose tissue.

Feeding the transplanted mice with a high-fat diet had a...

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