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Takeshi Kanda, Jonathan D. Brown, Gabriela Orasanu, Silke Vogel, Frank J. Gonzalez, Juliano Sartoretto, Thomas Michel, Jorge Plutzky
Published in Volume 119, Issue 1
J Clin Invest. 2009; 119(1):110–124 doi:10.1172/JCI36233
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Figure 5
Tie2Cre-mediated PPARγ endothelial deletion decreases adiposity and adipocyte size in response to rosiglitazone treatment in a manner dependent on endothelial but not BM PPARγ expression.

(A) Ratio of inguinal, epididymal, and brown adipose tissue weight/body weight in γEC/BM-KO and γEC/BM-WT mice after rosiglitazone (Rosi) treatment when fed with a standard chow diet (n = 5–8). *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01 versus same genotype mice. ††P < 0.01 versus γEC/BM-WT mice treated with rosiglitazone. (B) Histology of inguinal adipose tissue from γEC/BM-WT and γEC/BM-KO mice from A treated with or without rosiglitazone. Scale bar: 200 μm. (C) Adipocyte size of inguinal adipose tissue from γEC/BM-KO and γEC/BM-WT mice from A treated with or without rosiglitazone. *P < 0.05 versus γEC/BM-WT with same treatment. (D) Real-time quantitative PCR analysis of PPARγ expression in splenic lymphocytes isolated from mice after BMT (n = 4–5/group). Ratio of epididymal, inguinal, inguinal plus epididymal and brown adipose tissue weight/body weight after rosiglitazone treatment in BMT mice (n = 5–9). *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01 versus γEC-WT/BM-WT mice.