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Subcutaneous adipose tissue from fetal pigs was examined for c-Fos expression in developing adipocytes. Enhanced c-Fos expression was found in the nuclei of adipocytes and cells closely associated with fat cell clusters from 75 and 105 day old fetuses. 50 day old fetuses which had no adipocytes showed no enhanced c-Fos expression in undifferentiated cells. c-Fos expression in adipocytes was not transient, but persisted through the gestational period from 75 to 105 days. The timing of c-Fos induction appears to be closely related to adipocyte differentiation and was found only in developing adipocytes and cells closely associated with fat cell clusters and was not found in independent stromal-vascular cells.
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Lee, K., Buhr, J., Hausman, G.J. et al. Expression of c-Fos in subcutaneous adipose tissue of the fetal pig. Mol Cell Biochem 155, 31–35 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00714330
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