Consecutive Positive Feedback Loops Create a Bistable Switch that Controls Preadipocyte-to-Adipocyte Conversion

Cell Reports

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 976-990

  Park, Byung Ouk ^a   Ahrends, Robert ^a   Teruel, Mary N ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CCAAT ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN ALPHA; CCAAT ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN BETA; CYCLIC AMP; GLUCOCORTICOID; INSULIN; INSULIN RECEPTOR; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR GAMMA; REGULATOR PROTEIN;

ADIPOCYTE; ADIPOGENESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STIMULATION; CELLULAR PARAMETERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; HORMONE ACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; LIPID STORAGE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROADIPOCYTE; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS;

3T3 CELLS; ADIPOCYTES; ADIPOGENESIS; ANIMALS; CCAAT-ENHANCER-BINDING PROTEIN-ALPHA; CCAAT-ENHANCER-BINDING PROTEIN-BETA; CELL LINE; CYCLIC AMP; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; INSULIN; LIPIDS; MICE; PPAR GAMMA; RECEPTOR, INSULIN; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84868155607     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22111247     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2012.08.038     Document Type: Article

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