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ReviewBiology2020

Adipose and Muscle Cell Co-Culture System: A Novel In Vitro Tool to Mimic the In Vivo Cellular Environment.

Palaniselvam Kuppusamy, Dahye Kim, Ilavenil Soundharrajan, Inho Hwang, Ki Choon Choi

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In one paragraph

Review in Biology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
24citing papers in PubMed
2.3field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

24 citing papers in PubMed, 40 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. New Frontiers in modeling the lipedema microenvironmentFrontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2026
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  13. Principles of Indirect Co-culture Method Using Transwell.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Palaniselvam KuppusamyGrassland and Forage Division, National Institute of Animal Science, Rural Development Administration, Cheonan 330-801, Korea.
Dahye KimFaculty of Biotechnology, College of Applied Life Science, Jeju National University, Jeju 63243, Korea.
Ilavenil SoundharrajanGrassland and Forage Division, National Institute of Animal Science, Rural Development Administration, Cheonan 330-801, Korea.
Inho HwangDepartment of Animal Science, College of Agricultural and Life Science, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju 54896, Korea.
Ki Choon ChoiGrassland and Forage Division, National Institute of Animal Science, Rural Development Administration, Cheonan 330-801, Korea.ORCID 0000-0001-8071-5097
Rural Development Administration · KRJeju National University · KRJeonbuk National University · KR

Funding

National Institute of Animal Science PJ01090302
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A co-culture system allows researchers to investigate the complex interactions between two cell types under various environments, such as those that promote differentiation and growth as well as those that mimic healthy and diseased states, in vitro. In this paper, we review the most common co-culture systems for myocytes and adipocytes. The in vitro techniques mimic the in vivo environment and are used to investigate the causal relationships between different cell lines. Here, we briefly discuss mono-culture and co-culture cell systems and their applicability to the study of communication between two or more cell types, including adipocytes and myocytes. Also, we provide details about the different types of co-culture systems and their applicability to the study of metabolic disease, drug development, and the role of secretory factors in cell signaling cascades. Therefore, this review provides details about the co-culture systems used to study the complex interactions between adipose and muscle cells in various environments, such as those that promote cell differentiation and growth and those used for drug development.

Indexed as

adipocytesco-culturein vitro techniquemusclesecretory factors

Identifiers

PMID33374127
PMCPMC7823969
OpenAlexW3115214503

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