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Adipogenesis in obesity requires close interplay between differentiating adipocytes, stromal cells, and blood vessels.

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OBJECTIVE:The expansion of adipose tissue mass seen in obesity involves both hyperplasia and hypertrophy of adipocytes. However, little is known about how adipocytes, adipocyte precursors, blood vessels, and stromal cells interact with one another to achieve adipogenesis. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS:We have developed a confocal microscopy-based method of three-dimensional visualization of intact living adipose tissue that enabled us to simultaneously evaluate angiogenesis and adipogenesis in db/db mice. RESULTS:We found that adipocyte differentiation takes place within cell clusters (which we designated adipogenic/angiogenic cell clusters) that contain multiple cell types, including endothelial cells and stromal cells that express CD34 and CD68 and bind lectin. There were close spatial and temporal interrelationships between blood vessel formation and adipogenesis, and the sprouting of new blood vessels from preexisting vasculature was coupled to adipocyte differentiation. CD34(+) CD68(+) lectin-binding cells could clearly be distinguished from CD34(-) CD68(+) macrophages, which were scattered in the stroma and did not bind lectin. Adipogenic/angiogenic cell clusters can morphologically and immunohistochemically be distinguished from crown-like structures frequently seen in the late stages of adipose tissue obesity. Administration of anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) antibodies inhibited not only angiogenesis but also the formation of adipogenic/angiogenic cell clusters, indicating that the coupling of adipogenesis and angiogenesis is essential for differentiation of adipocytes in obesity and that VEGF is a key mediator of that process. CONCLUSIONS:Living tissue imaging techniques provide novel evidence of the dynamic interactions between differentiating adipocytes, stromal cells, and angiogenesis in living obese adipose tissue.

journal_name

Diabetes

journal_title

Diabetes

authors

Nishimura S,Manabe I,Nagasaki M,Hosoya Y,Yamashita H,Fujita H,Ohsugi M,Tobe K,Kadowaki T,Nagai R,Sugiura S

doi

10.2337/db06-1749

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2007-06-01 00:00:00

pages

1517-26

issue

eissn

0012-1797

issn

1939-327X

pii

db06-1749

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Adipogenesis in obesity requires close interplay between differentiating adipocytes, stromal cells, and blood vessels.