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SUBMITTER: Toda S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2710525 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Organogenesis 20090401 2
Adipose tissue consists of mature adipocytes, preadipocytes and mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), but a culture system for analyzing their cell types within the tissue has not been established. We have recently developed "adipose tissue-organotypic culture system" that maintains unilocular structure, proliferative ability and functions of mature adipocytes for a long term, using three-dimensional collagen gel culture of the tissue fragments. In this system, both preadipocytes and MSCs regenerate ac ...[more]