Fig 3. Relative telomere length, expression of GLB1 (SA-β galactosidase) and prelamin A/lamin A ratio in adipose tissue from BH and NBL lipomas from HIV-1–-infected, HAART-treated individuals and in subcutaneous adipose tissue from healthy controls.

A) Relative telomere lengths are presented as means ± SEM, expressed as a ratio of arbitrary fluorescence units for telomere repeats (Tel) to the single-copy nuclear gene 36B4 (*p<0.05, lipomas vs. healthy controls). B) Relative mRNA levels of SA-β-Galactosidase. Means ± SEM, expressed as ratios relative to 18S rRNA, are shown. C) Prelamin A/lamin A ratio are presented as means ± SEM of the relative densitometric analysis of western blots (right), representative western blot bands for lamin A and prelamin A are shown (left). The bands for both processed lamin and unprocessed prelamin are indicated with arrows. Means correspond to 10 (C, BH) and 8 (NBL) samples.