BACKGROUND: Preadipocytes are extensively used as a type of proliferative cell culture model to investigate proliferation and differentiation of adipocytes and lipodystrophy (eg obesity)-related metabolic dysfunctions and disorders. However, cell biology is not well understood in human preadipocytes. The present study was to investigate the ...published_or_final_versionThe 17th Medicial Research Conference, Department of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, 14 January 2012. In Hong Kong Medical Journal, 2012, v. 18 n. 1, suppl. 1, p. 24, abstract no. 3