Molecular and Cellular Research on Adipose Tissue Development and Functions, 2nd Edition
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Biology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 10
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Interests: gene expression; cell signaling; adipose; cancer biology; metabolic diseases
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Dear Colleagues,
The prevalence of obese people is increasing dramatically worldwide. Adipose tissue, as a central organ in energy homeostasis, directly affects weight change and causes obesity. Understanding adipose tissue development may contribute to the identification of novel and targeted therapies for obesity and related metabolic diseases. Murine knockout mouse models and in vitro adipocyte differentiation are commonly used to study adipose tissue development and adipogenesis. Adipogenesis is classified as a two-step cell fate transition. The early stages of adipogenesis are controlled by the master adipogenic transcription factors PPAR-γ and CEBP-α, and the later stages of adipogenesis are regulated by lipogenic transcription factors, such as ChREBP and SREBP. Mammals have two types of adipose tissue: white adipose tissue (WAT), for energy storage, and brown adipose tissue (BAT), for thermogenesis. Unlike WAT, which contains large uniocular lipid droplets and few mitochondria, BAT has multiple small multilocular lipid droplets and higher mitochondrial density. While the factors and molecular mechanisms of early adipogenesis are shared by white and brown adipogenesis, late adipogenesis is more important in postnatal fat expansion in WAT.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- The transcriptional and epigenomic regulation of adipose tissue development;
- Metabolic signaling in adipocytes;
- The heterogeneity of white, brown, and beige adipose tissue;
- Genetic mouse models and recent molecular techniques for adipose tissue studies;
- Obesity, lipodystrophy, fibrosis, inflammation, and other fat-related diseases.
Dr. Younghoon Jang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- adipose tissue
- development
- expansion
- white adipose tissue
- brown adipose tissue
- beige adipose tissue
- adipocytes
- adipogenesis
- lipogenesis
- peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPAR-γ)
- CCAAT enhancer binding proteins (CEBP-α, CEBP-β, and CEBP-δ)
- carbohydrate response element binding protein (ChREBP)
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