Figure 1.

Overview of adipogenesis. Mesenchymal stem cells are also capable of forming adipocytes, myoblasts, osteoblasts, and chondroblasts. Adipogenesis is the process by which fibroblast‐like progenitor cells restrict their fate to adipogenic lineage (preadipocytes, also called adipogenic progenitor cells or adipogenic stem cells), finally differentiating to form adipocytes. There is now evidence showing that adipocytes can dedifferentiate back to fibroblast‐like progenitor cells in response to metabolic environments. The dedifferentiated cells can proliferate and redifferentiate to become adipocytes.