JOURNAL CLUB: Dynamics of fat cell turnover in humans
Martin Fenner
Sunday, 08 June 2008 13:46 UTC
I would like to suggest the following paper:
Spalding KL, Arner E, Westermark PO, Bernard S, Buchholz BA, Bergmann O, Blomqvist L, Hoffstedt J, Näslund E, Britton T, Concha H, Hassan M, Rydén M, Frisén J, Arner P. Dynamics of fat cell turnover in humans. Nature 2008;453(7196):783-7
What I like about this paper? The authors try to address an important problem (obesity) by asking a number of simple questions. Instead of using the traditional IMRAD format (introduction, methods, results and discussion), the different structure of the paper allows the reader to easily follow the experiments. A lot of the experimental details are put into the supplementary information and don’t distract from the key research findings.
The title is short and interesting, but I would have put the main research finding in there, e.g. fat cell numbers remain stable during adulthood independent of body weight.
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