Table 1.

In vitro models for studying adipocyte biology

Cell line	Species	Origin
	Totipotent
Embryonic stem cells	mouse	mouse blastocysts
Multipotent
10T1/2	mouse	mouse embryo
3T3-F442A	mouse	Swiss mouse embryo (3T3 cells)
Unipotent
Immortalized hMSC	human
3T3-L1	mouse	Swiss mouse embryo
Ob17	mouse	epididymal fat pad of ob/ob mouse
TA1	mouse	subclone of 10T1/2 treated with 5-azacytidine
Lisa-2	human	liposarcoma
Cell strains
Primary	rat	WAT from all depots of newborn and adult
Primary	mouse	WAT from all depots of newborn and adult
Primary	human	WAT from all depots of newborn and adult
Adult stem cells	mouse, rat, human	bone marrow
SGBS	human	Sc WAT of an infant with SGBS

hMSC = Human mesenchymal stem cell.