Project description:We previously derived a doxycycline-inducible (Tet-On) lineage-tracing model that allows for the indelible labeling of Pdgfrb-expressing perivascular cells in adipose tissue of adult mice (PdgfrbrtTA; TRE-Cre; Rosa26RmT/mG; herein, “MuralChaser mice”). Prior to exposing animals to doxycyline, all cells within the stromal-vascular fraction (SVF) of adult gonadal WAT (gWAT) express membrane tdTomato from the Rosa26 locus. Following 9 days of exposure to doxycycline-containing chow diet, Cre-mediated excision of the loxP-flanked tdTomato cassette occurs in Pdgfrb-expressing cells, and membrane-bound GFP (mGFP) expression is constitutively activated. We set out to test the hypothesis that Pdgfrb-expressing perivascular cells in gonadal visceral WAT of adult mice are heterogeneous, with subpopulations harboring functionally distinct phenotypes. To this end, we performed single cell RNA-sequencing of mGFP+ cells isolated from gWAT of lean (chow fed) 8 weeks-old male MuralChaser mice following 9 days of doxycycline exposure.
Project description:To investigate the proteomic profiles of paired subcutaneous adipose tissue (SAT) and visceral adipose tissue (VAT) samples, as well as their correlations with clinical traits in severely obese patients, and to identify potential serum protein markers associated with tissue expression or metabolic states.
Project description:Visceral adipose tissue samples were obtained from severely obese individuals that underwent bariatric surgery. The goal of this study was to identify tissue specific methylation QTLs. Whole-transcriptome subcutaneous adipose tissue methylation levels were determined in 71 individuals with a BMI >35 kg/m2. Bisulphite converted DNA from the 71 visceral adipose tissue samples were hybridised to the Illumina Infinium 450k Human Methylation Beadchip.
Project description:The aim of this study was to characterize expression profiles of visceral and subcutaneous adipose tissue in children. Adipose tissue samples were collected from children having elective surgery (n=71, [54 boys], 6.0 +- 4.3 years). Affymetrix microarrays (n=20) were performed to characterize the functional profile and identify genes of interest in adipose tissue. Visceral adipose tissue had an overrepresentation of Gene Ontology themes related to immune and inflammatory responses and subcutaneous adipose tissue had an overrepresentation of themes related to adipocyte growth and development. Likewise, qPCR performed in the whole cohort showed a 30-fold increase in haptoglobin (P < 0.005), 7-fold increase in IL-10 (P < 0.001), 8-fold decrease in VEGF (P < 0.01) and a 28-fold decrease in TBOX15 (P < 0.001) in visceral compared to subcutaneous adipose tissue.The inflammatory pattern in visceral adipose tissue may represent an early stage of the adverse effects of this depot, and combined with chronic obesity, may contribute to increased metabolic and cardiovascular risk. 20 human samples from pre-pubertal boys and girls were assessed for differences in expression between subcutaneous (n=15) and visceral fat (n=5), with 1 microarray per subject
Project description:We identified two different subsets of macrophages in visceral adipose tissue. These two subsets were transcriptomically different. We observed that C3CR1-low CCR2-low macrophages are transcriptomically different after myocardial infarction (MI).