Identification of Functionally Distinct Fibro-inflammatory and Adipogenic Stromal Subpopulations in Visceral Adipose Tissue of Adult Mice

Overview

Journal Elife

Specialty Biology

Date 2018 Sep 29

PMID 30265241

Citations 176

Authors

Chelsea Hepler

Bo Shan

Qianbin Zhang

Gervaise H Henry

Mengle Shao

Lavanya Vishvanath

Alexandra L Ghaben

Angela B Mobley

Douglas Strand

Gary C Hon

Rana K Gupta

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Abstract

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