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SUBMITTER: Feldman BJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1592529 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Feldman Brian J BJ Streeper Ryan S RS Farese Robert V RV Yamamoto Keith R KR
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20061009 42
A pluripotent cell line, C3H10T1/2, is induced to undergo adipogenesis by a mixture of factors that includes a glucocorticoid such as dexamethasone. We found that expression of myostatin (MSTN), a TGF-beta family member extensively studied in muscle, was induced by dexamethasone under those differentiation conditions. Moreover, MSTN could substitute for dexamethasone in the adipogenesis mixture. However, the adipocytes induced by MSTN in both cell culture and transgenic mice were small and expre ...[more]