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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Apr 17.
Published in final edited form as: Obesity (Silver Spring). 2010 Oct 7;19(3):476–482. doi: 10.1038/oby.2010.215

Figure 1. Accumulation of CD68+ macrophages in the adipose tissue vascular stroma.

Figure 1

Right panel : histochemical analysis of subcutaneous adipose tissue shows rare CD68+ staining (dark brown) in a section from a representative lean woman (pre-gravid BMI: 22.5). In contrast, the section from an obese woman (pre-gravid BMI: 31.7) shows an increased number of dark brown stained cells accumulating in the stroma vascular space in between the adipocytes. Scale bar: 20 μm. Magnification X 100.

Left panel: quantification of adipocytes size (top) and CD68+ macrophage number (bottom) in adipose tissue sections. Mean + SEM of n = 14 adipose tissue sections from obese (solid bars) and n = 7 from lean (open bars) women. Statistical significance: *p < 0.001.