Visualization of sympathetic neural innervation in human white adipose tissue.
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Authors
Cacciottolo, Tessa
Henning, Elana
Keogh, Julia M
Publication Date
2022-03Journal Title
Open Biol
ISSN
2046-2441
Publisher
The Royal Society
Volume
12
Issue
3
Language
eng
Type
Article
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Perdikari, A., Cacciottolo, T., Henning, E., Mendes de Oliveira, E., Keogh, J. M., & Farooqi, I. S. (2022). Visualization of sympathetic neural innervation in human white adipose tissue.. Open Biol, 12 (3) https://doi.org/10.1098/rsob.210345
Description
Funder: Botnar Fondation
Funder: NIHR Senior Investigator Award
Funder: Bernard Wolfe Health Neuroscience Endowment
Funder: NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Center
Abstract
Obesity, defined as an excess of adipose tissue that adversely affects health, is a major cause of morbidity and mortality. However, to date, understanding the structure and function of human adipose tissue has been limited by the inability to visualize cellular components due to the innate structure of adipocytes, which are characterized by large lipid droplets. Combining the iDISCO and the CUBIC protocols for whole tissue staining and optical clearing, we developed a protocol to enable immunostaining and clearing of human subcutaneous white adipose tissue (WAT) obtained from individuals with severe obesity. We were able to perform immunolabelling of sympathetic nerve terminals in whole WAT and subsequent optical clearing by eliminating lipids to render the opaque tissue completely transparent. We then used light sheet confocal microscopy to visualize sympathetic innervation of human WAT from obese individuals in a three-dimensional manner. We demonstrate the visualization of sympathetic nerve terminals in human WAT. This protocol can be modified to visualize other structures such as blood vessels involved in the development, maintenance and function of human adipose tissue in health and disease.
Keywords
Obesity, Human Adipose Tissue, Sympathetic Innervation, Three-dimensional Microscopy, Whole Tissue Immunolabelling
Sponsorship
Wellcome Trust (207462/Z/17/Z)
Wellcome Trust (208363/Z/17/Z)
Identifiers
35291877, PMC8924755
External DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsob.210345
This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/336158
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