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ReviewCell2022

Adipose-tissue plasticity in health and disease.

Alexander Sakers, Mirian Krystel De Siqueira, Patrick Seale, Claudio J Villanueva

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Review in Cell, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 612 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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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

612 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. [Recent Advances in the Interorgan Regulatory Roles of Adipose Tissue].Sichuan da xue xue bao. Yi xue ban = Journal of Sichuan University. Medical science edition · 2026
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  9. Beyond Deterministic Fetal Programming: Intrauterine Exposures and the Multifactorial Origins of Adiposity.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2026
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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

4 authors.

Alexander SakersInstitute for Diabetes, Obesity & Metabolism, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA.
Mirian Krystel De SiqueiraMolecular, Cellular & Integrative Physiology Program, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095-7070 USA; Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095-7070 USA.
Patrick SealeInstitute for Diabetes, Obesity & Metabolism, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA. Electronic address: sealep@pennmedicine.upenn.edu.
Claudio J VillanuevaMolecular, Cellular & Integrative Physiology Program, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095-7070 USA; Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095-7070 USA. Electronic address: cvillanueva@g.ucla.edu.

Funding

Regulation of Mesenchymal Progenitor Cell Fate and Adipose Tissue RemodelingR01DK120982 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI Patrick Seale · 2019 to 2026
$3.7M
Gene Networks promoting adipocyte cell differentiation and functionR01DK121801 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI SEALE, PATRICK · 2020 to 2024
$2.3M
Metabolic Control of Adipose Tissue Remodeling and FibrosisR01DK123356 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI SEALE, PATRICK · 2019 to 2022
$1.9M
Role of TLE3 in the transcriptional regulation of beige adipocytesR01DK103930 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · PI VILLANUEVA, CLAUDIO J · 2015 to 2019
$1.7M
NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK103930NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK120982NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK121801NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK123356
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Adipose tissue, colloquially known as "fat," is an extraordinarily flexible and heterogeneous organ. While historically viewed as a passive site for energy storage, we now appreciate that adipose tissue regulates many aspects of whole-body physiology, including food intake, maintenance of energy levels, insulin sensitivity, body temperature, and immune responses. A crucial property of adipose tissue is its high degree of plasticity. Physiologic stimuli induce dramatic alterations in adipose-tissue metabolism, structure, and phenotype to meet the needs of the organism. Limitations to this plasticity cause diminished or aberrant responses to physiologic cues and drive the progression of cardiometabolic disease along with other pathological consequences of obesity.

Indexed as

Adaptation, PhysiologicalDiseaseHealthAdipocytes, WhiteAdipose TissueAnimalsHumansThermogenesisadipocyteadipocyte progenitoradipose tissuebeige fatbrown fatdiabetesobesitythermogenesis

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PMID35120662
PMCPMC11152570

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