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Hypertrophied facial fat in an HIV-1-infected patient after autologous transplantation from 'buffalo hump' retains a partial brown-fat-like molecular signature.
Antiviral therapy - 1 Jan 2013
Gallego-Escuredo José M, Domingo Pere, Fontdevila Joan, Villarroya Joan, Domingo Joan C, Martinez Esteban, Giralt Marta, Villarroya Francesc
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Facial lipoatrophy, a common alteration among HIV-1-infected, antiretroviral-treated patients, is often corrected using autologous transplantation. In some cases, especially when enlarged adipose tissue from the dorso-cervical area (that is, a 'buffalo hump') is used as a source of fat for transplantation, the transplanted fat develops progressive hypertrophy. To gain insight into the molecular basis...
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