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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Diabetologia. 2011 Mar 13;54(6):1480–1490. doi: 10.1007/s00125-011-2103-y

Fig. 8.

Fig. 8

Adipose tissue capillary density is decreased in obesity. a Representative photomicrographs of VAT from lean and obese participants stained with CD34-antibody. b Capillary density from matched VAT and SAT specimens from nine obese and eight lean participants. The ordinate shows the mean number of capillaries per adipocyte in at least ten 20× fields per specimen. a and b compare VAT vs SAT within each cohort (obese or lean) using paired t tests; c and d compare obese vs lean participants within each depot (VAT or SAT) using independent t tests. ap=0.118; bp=0.402; cp=0.001; dp= 0.001. Results were similar when data was studied in terms of capillaries per 20× field