Defective adipocyte differentiation in mice lacking the C/EBPβ and/or C/EBPδ gene

EMBO Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 24, 1997, Pages 7432-7443

  Tanaka, Takashi ^a   Yoshida, Nobuaki ^b   Kishimoto, Tadamitsu ^c   Akira, Shizuo ^a  

^a HYOGO COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAT DROPLET; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ADIPOCYTE; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADIPOCYTES; ADIPOSE TISSUE; AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CCAAT-ENHANCER-BINDING PROTEINS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CROSSES, GENETIC; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYO; EPIDIDYMIS; GENOTYPE; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; ORGAN SIZE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0031435337     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/16.24.7432     Document Type: Article

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