TY  - JOUR
T1  - FAt stem cells
AU  - Hampton T
Y1  - 2011/08/03
N1  - 10.1001/jama.2011.1088
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 480
EP  - 480
VL  - 306
IS  - 5
N2  - 
Researchers at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston isolated a peptide that specifically homes to ASCs and used it to purify the corresponding ASC surface receptor. They found this to be a fragment of decorin, a protein regulating cell adhesion, proliferation, and migration. A search for proteins that bind to this fragment led them to resistin, a protein secreted by fat cells and a key regulator of metabolism, for which the receptor has been unknown.

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.2011.1088
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2011.1088
ER  -