Qian Li*, Carolina E Hagberg*, Helena Silva Cascales … Anders Thorell, Kirsty L Spalding. Obesity and hyperinsulinemia drive adipocytes to activate a cell cycle program and senesce. Nature Medicine. 2021 Nov;27(11):1941-1953.

Qian Li, Kirsty Spalding. Profiling hypertrophic adipocytes in humans, from transcriptomics to diagnostics. EBioMedicine, 2022 Jul;81:104105.

Qian Li, Kirsty Spalding. The regulation of adipocyte growth in white adipose tissue. Fontiers of cell and development biology, 2022, Nov 22;10:1003219.

Jesper Bäckdahl, Lovisa Franze´n, Lucas Massier, Qian Li… Mikael Rydén, Patrik L Ståhl, Niklas Mejhert. Spatial mapping reveals human adipocyte subpopulations with distinct sensitivities to insulin. Cell Metabolism. 2021 Nov 2;33(11):2301.

Smith U, Li Q, Rydén M, Spalding KL. Cellular senescence and its role in white adipose tissue. Int J Obes (Lond). 2021 May;45(5):934-943.

Harms MJ, Li Q, Lee S, Zhang C, Kull B, Hallen S, Thorell A, Alexandersson I, Hagberg CE, Spalding KL, Boucher J. Mature human white adipocytes cultured under membranes maintain identity, function, and can transdifferentiate into brown-like adipocytes. Cell Reports. 2019 Apr 2;27(1):213-225

Hagberg CE, Li Q, Kutschke M, Bhowmick D, Kiss E, Shabalina IG, Harms MJ, Shilkova O, Kozina V, Nedergaard J, Boucher J, Thorell A, Spalding KL. Flow cytometry of mouse and human adipocytes for the analysis of browning and cellular heterogeneity. Cell Reports. 2018 Sep 4;24(10):2746-2756. 

Petrus P, Mejhert N, Corrales P, Lecoutre S, Li Q, … Arner P, Rydén M. Transforming growth factor-β3 regulates adipocyte number in subcutaneous white adipose tissue. Cell Reports, 2018 Oct; 25(3):551-560.