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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Endocrinol Metab Clin North Am. 2008 Sep;37(3):753–xi. doi: 10.1016/j.ecl.2008.07.002

Figure 1. Cartoon representation of white adipose tissue in the lean (left) vs. obese (right) state.

Figure 1

Adipocytes are shown with yellow triglyceride droplets and blue cytoplasm. In the lean state the light blue cytoplasm represent a state of normoxia, whereas the dark blue in the obese state represents a hypoxic state. Pre adipocytes are shown in brown, macrophages in green, blood vessels/endothelial cells in red, and the extracellular matrix as black.