Identification of Metabolically Distinct Adipocyte Progenitor Cells in Human Adipose Tissues

Arthe Raajendiran; Geraldine Ooi; Jackie Bayliss; Paul E O'Brien; Ralf B Schittenhelm; Ashlee K Clark; Renea A Taylor; Matthew S Rodeheffer; Paul R Burton; Matthew J Watt

Journal article

Identification of Metabolically Distinct Adipocyte Progenitor Cells in Human Adipose Tissues

Arthe Raajendiran, Geraldine Ooi, Jackie Bayliss, Paul E O'Brien, Ralf B Schittenhelm, Ashlee K Clark, Renea A Taylor, Matthew S Rodeheffer, Paul R Burton, Matthew J Watt

Cell Reports | CELL PRESS | Published : 2019

DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2019.04.010

University of Melbourne Researchers

Matthew Watt Author Physiology

Renea Taylor Author The Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology

Jacqueline Bayliss Author Anatomy and Physiology

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Grants

Awarded by National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (NHMRC)

Awarded by Monash Yale Strategic Grant in Metabolism

Awarded by NHMRC

Awarded by Victorian Cancer Agency

Awarded by NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES

Funding Acknowledgements

We thank Jennifer Lo, Natalie Payne, Guizhi Sun, Claude Bernard (Monash University), and Sean McGee (Deakin University) for technical advice and reagents; Roxane Legae and Trevor Wilson (Hudson Institute) and Stuart K. Archer for assistance with the RNA-seq analysis; Kalai Shaw and the surgical and nursing staff at the Alfred Hospital; Andrew Fryga, Michael Reitsma, Adam Dinsdale, and Katherine Flanagan (Monash Flow Core), and Vanta Jameson and Joshua Kie (Melbourne Brain Centre Flow Cytometry Facility) for assistance with flow cytometry; Monash Micro Imaging and the Biological Optical Microscopy Platform (University of Melbourne) for assistance with confocal microscopy; and Graham Hepworth (University of Melbourne) for statistical consultancy. This work was supported by the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (NHMRC) (APP1098972) and the Monash Yale Strategic Grant in Metabolism (MDO17P01W). A.R. was supported by a scholarship from the Department of Physiology, Monash University. M.J.W. is supported by a Senior Research Fellowship from the NHMRC (APP1077703). R.A.T. is supported by the Victorian Cancer Agency (MCRF15023).