Fat and Bone: PGC-1α Regulates Mesenchymal Cell Fate during Aging and Osteoporosis.

Cell Stem Cell

Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA.

Published: August 2018

PGC-1α is a transcriptional co-activator associated with PPARγ that regulates thermogenic gene expression in brown fat. In this issue, Yu et al. (2018) show that PGC-1α regulates marrow mesenchymal stromal cell lineage allocation in vivo, inhibiting marrow adipogenesis and associated bone loss in the aging skeleton and following ovariectomy-induced osteoporosis.

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