FIG. 4.

Heatmap of gene expression in adipose tissue-derived fresh sorted and cultured pericytes. CD146⁺Aldh^dim human pericytes were derived from n = 6 lipoaspirate samples from healthy female donors. Total RNA-Seq was performed on purified human pericytes, either immediately after FACS (freshly sorted) or after culture propagation (cultured). Samples were normalized by RPKM. The culture time point (y-axis) and level of gene expression (x-axis) is color-coded from dark gray to light gray. CD146 (MCAM) expression is included as a positive control. FACS, fluorescence activated cell sorting; RPKM, reads per kilobase of exon per million mapped reads.