Improved techniques for studies of adipocyte cellularity and metabolism - PubMed (original) (raw)
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Improved techniques for studies of adipocyte cellularity and metabolism
T D Etherton et al. J Lipid Res. 1977 Jul.
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Two methods are described for the study of adipose tissue cellularity and metabolism. In the first, 8 M urea was used to liberate osmium tetroxide-fixed adipocytes from the connective tissue matrix. In the smaller-sized cell ranges there was a significant reduction in apparent adipocyte number of rat, pig, and beef adipose tissue with 8 M urea treatment. This was attributed to solubilization of connective tissue debris that was counted as adipocytes in samples isolated without urea. There was no effect on the larger cell-size fractions with 8 M urea treatment. Eight molar urea had no effect on fixed adipocyte retention of radioactivity. The second method entailed the use of hydrogen peroxide to volatilize the black, osmium tetroxide-fatty acid complex of osmium tetroxide-fixed adipocytes, containing radioactivity, resulting in colorless lipid suitable for liquid scintillation counting. This latter technique permits incubation of unfixed adipose tissue slices with a radioactive substrate, followed by fixation with osmium tetroxide and subsequent separation of the adipocytes, by screening, into the desired size ranges. Adipocytes in various size fractions can then be counted, sized, and then decolorized with hydrogen peroxide in order to quantitate the amount of radioactivity within the adipocytes. There was no loss of radioactivity from the fixed cells with hydrogen peroxide treatment.
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