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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Apr 23.
Published in final edited form as: Circulation. 2011 Jan 3;123(2):186–194. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.110.970145

Figure 7. Decrease in SQ adipose tissue capillary density in morbidly obese as compared to overweight individuals.

Figure 7

Sections of SQ adipose tissue from individuals with BMI 25 - 35.5 (A), or 36 - 59 (B) stained with anti vWF antibody. Arrows point to examples of capillary lumens. C. Quantification of capillary lumens per field. Bars represent the means and SEM of explants from 10 (BMI 25 – 35.5) or 7 (BMI 36 - 59) individuals per condition. The value for each patient was the average number of lumens per field calculated from 3 independent sections (10 fields per section). D. Measurement of adipocyte size and E. Normalization of capillary density by adipocyte number. The statistical analysis was based on two-tailed unpaired Student t-test.