In essence, the authors report MINCH, a monoester and minor urinary metabolite (Koch et al., 2013) of a plasticizer marketed by BASF under the brandname Hexamoll(®) DINCH(®), promotes the differentiation of preadipocytes derived from rat epididymal stromal vascular fraction (SVF) to adipocytes. The authors have over-interpreted their in-vitro data and missed important publicly available in-vivo data.
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