Figure 6.

Relative protein expression levels of leptin (A), adiponectin (B) and resistin (C) in paired biopsies of subcutaneous and visceral adipose tissues in metabolically healthy normal-weight, metabolically obese normal-weight, metabolically healthy obese, and metabolically obese (“at risk”) women. The protein content is expressed relative to that of a visceral adipose tissue, which was standardised to be 100%. The results of a representative example from three observations are shown. The data were quantified as described in the Material and methods section