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Fig. 1 | Intensive Care Medicine Experimental

Fig. 1

From: Proliferation and differentiation of adipose tissue in prolonged lean and obese critically ill patients

Fig. 1

Markers of adipogenesis in lean and overweight/obese prolonged critically ill patients. Median adipocyte size in subcutaneous (a) and visceral (d) adipose tissue. Relative PPARγ protein level in subcutaneous (b) and visceral (e) adipose tissue, as detected with Western blot. Relative mRNA expression of CEBPB in subcutaneous (c) and visceral (f) adipose tissue. Protein levels are presented as fold change of the mean of healthy controls. Gene expression data are expressed normalized to RNA18S5 or GAPDH and as a fold change of the mean of the healthy controls. Light gray bar median and interquartile ranges of healthy controls (n = 20), white lean prolonged critically ill patients (BMI ≤25 kg/m2; n = 24), dark gray overweight/obese prolonged critically ill patients (BMI >25 kg/m2; n = 24) [*p ≤ 0.05 compared to healthy controls, + p = 0.08 compared to healthy controls]

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