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Adipocytes, also known as lipocytes and fat cells, are the cells that primarily compose adipose tissue, specialized in storing energy as fat. Adipocytes are derived from mesenchymal stem cells which give rise to adipocytes through adipogenesis. In cell culture, adipocyte progenitors can also form osteoblasts, myocytes and other cell types.
Key facts
- Cell.Name
- Adipocyte
- Cell.Latin
- adipocytus
- Cell.Image
- Blausen 0012 AdiposeTissue.png
- Cell.Caption
- Illustration depicting white fat cells.
- Cell.Image2
- Adipocyte types.jpg
- Cell.Caption2
- Morphology of three different classes of adipocytes
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Research
64,379 papers- Adipogenesis: from stem cell to adipocyte.Annual review of biochemistry · 2012
- Adipocyte differentiation from the inside out.Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology · 2006
- Adipocyte dedifferentiation in health and diseases.Clinical science (London, England : 1979) · 2019
- White Adipocyte Plasticity in Physiology and Disease.Cells · 2019
- How obesity affects adipocyte turnover.Trends in endocrinology and metabolism: TEM · 2025
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- cell type
- Part of
- adipose tissue
- Image
- Blausen 0012 AdiposeTissue.png
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- native label
- adipocytus
- Commons category
- Adipocytes
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