[HTML][HTML] Preadipocyte conversion to macrophage: evidence of plasticity

G Charrière, B Cousin, E Arnaud, M André… - Journal of Biological …, 2003 - ASBMB
Preadipocytes are present throughout adult life in adipose tissues and can proliferate and
differentiate into mature adipocytes according to the energy balance. An increasing number
of reports demonstrate that cells from adipose lineages (preadipocytes and adipocytes) and
macrophages share numerous functional or antigenic properties. No large scale comparison
reflecting the phenotype complexity has been performed between these different cell types
until now. We used profiling analysis to define the common features shared by preadipocyte …