Jennifer Thompson & Taylor Scheidl on Estrogen, Hyperplastic Adipose Expansion and Preserving Adipose Progenitor Cell Availability in Subcutaneous Depots of Female Mice, plus "Sweet Talk" with ghrelin hormone researcher Jeffrey Zigman

Welcome to the July 2026 episode of DiabetesBio—the American Diabetes Association's podcast for its flagship research publication, Diabetes. In this episode of DiabetesBio, Drs. Kirk Habegger, Darleen Sandoval, and Kevin Williams discuss the latest and greatest content in the July 2026 issue of Diabetes.

5:40 Kirk welcomes Jennifer Thompson, PhD, Associate Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Calgary, and Taylor Scheidl, a doctoral student in Thomson's lab. Their article, "Estrogen Mediates Capacity for Hyperplastic Adipose Expansion and Preserves Adipose Progenitor Cell Availability in Subcutaneous Depots of Female Mice," is the latest Paper of the Month, and available for free at doi.org/10.2337/db25-0773.

36:20 In the latest edition of "Sweet Talk," our hosts speak with Jeffrey Zigman, MD, PhD, Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center and a member of the Division of Endocrinology. Dr. Zigman, who has type 1 diabetes himself, has spent his career studying ghrelin as a hormone to regulate food intake, body weight, blood glucose regulation, and many other aspects of metabolism.

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