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Contact: Aline McKenzie
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UT Southwestern Medical Center
Caption: Dr. Jonathan Graff, associate professor of developmental biology and molecular biology, has shown in mice that immature fat cells in the walls of the blood vessels that nourish fatty tissue can grow into adult cells responsible for packing on extra weight.
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