RGD Reference Report - Association of fat cell size and paracrine growth factors in development of hyperplastic obesity. - Rat Genome Database

Send us a Message



 Submit Data |  Help |  Video Tutorials |  News |  Publications |  Download |  REST API |  Citing RGD |  Contact   
Search RGD Grant Resources Citing RGD About Us Contact Us
Genes QTLs Strains Markers Genome Information Ontologies Cell Lines References Download Submit Data
OntoMate (Literature Search) JBrowse (Genome Browser) Variant Visualizer Multi-Ontology Enrichment (MOET) Gene-Ortholog Location Finder (GOLF) InterViewer (Protein-Protein Interactions) PhenoMiner (Quatitative Phenotypes) Gene Annotator OLGA (Gene List Generator) RatMine GViewer (Genome Viewer) Overgo Probe Designer VCMap
Aging & Age-Related Disease Cancer Cardiovascular Disease COVID-19 Developmental Disease Diabetes Hematologic Disease Immune & Inflammatory Disease Infectious Disease Liver Disease Neurological Disease Obesity & Metabolic Syndrome Renal Disease Respiratory Disease Sensory Organ Disease
Find Models   new Genetic Models Autism Models PhenoMiner (Quantitative Phenotypes) Expected Ranges (Quantitative Phenotype) PhenoMiner Term Comparison Hybrid Rat Diversity Panel Phenotypes GERRC (Gene Editing Rat Resource Center) Phenotypes in Other Animal Models Animal Husbandry Strain Medical Records Phylogenetics Strain Availability Calendar Rats 101 Submissions Photo Archive
Pathways
Rat Community Forum Directory of Rat Laboratories Video Tutorials News RGD Publications RGD Poster Archive Nomenclature Guidelines Resource Links Laboratory Resources Employment Resources

Association of fat cell size and paracrine growth factors in development of hyperplastic obesity.

Authors: Marques, BG  Hausman, DB  Martin, RJ 
Citation: Marques BG, etal., Am J Physiol 1998 Dec;275(6 Pt 2):R1898-908.
RGD ID: 628910
Pubmed: (View Article at PubMed) PMID:9843879

Inguinal, epididymal, and retroperitoneal adipose tissue from lean and obese Zucker rats, 3-15 wk of age, was used to determine the association among adipocyte size distribution, the presence of paracrine growth factors in adipose tissue, and subsequent changes in adipocyte number. For each specific depot and time point, obese rats had a greater percentage of large adipocytes than did lean rats. A positive correlation (P < 0.02) was found in obese rats between the percentage of inguinal and epididymal adipocytes in the 140- to 180-micrometer size range and the ability of conditioned medium prepared from these depots to stimulate cellular proliferation in a bioassay system utilizing preadipocytes from inguinal fat pads of normal rats. Proliferative activity of the conditioned medium from all depots in obese rats was positively correlated (P < 0.01) to subsequent changes in fat cell number. The data presented here for the inguinal and epididymal depot of obese Zucker rats are consistent with the hypothesis that enlarged adipocytes secrete growth factors that induce preadipocyte proliferation.



Disease Annotations    
Hyperphagia  (IAGP,ISO)
obesity  (IAGP,ISO)

Phenotype Annotations    

Mammalian Phenotype
Objects Annotated

Genes (Rattus norvegicus)
Lepr  (leptin receptor)
Leprfa  (leptin receptor; fa mutant)

Genes (Mus musculus)
Lepr  (leptin receptor)

Genes (Homo sapiens)
LEPR  (leptin receptor)

Strains
ZUC-Lepr+Ste  (NA)
ZUC-LeprfaSte-/-  (NA)

Objects referenced in this article
Strain ZUC-Leprfa null Rattus norvegicus

Additional Information