Abstract
Obesity and metabolic disorders such as diabetes, heart disease, and cancer, are all associated with dramatic adipose tissue remodeling. Tissue-resident adipose progenitor cells (APCs) play a key role in adipose tissue homeostasis and can contribute to the tissue pathology. The growing use of single cell analysis technologies – including single-cell RNA-sequencing and single-cell proteomics – is transforming the stem/progenitor cell field by permitting unprecedented resolution of individual cell expression changes within the context of population-or tissue-wide changes. In this article, we provide detailed protocols to dissect mouse epididymal adipose tissue, isolate single adipose tissue-derived cells, and perform fluorescence activated cell sorting (FACS) to enrich for viable Sca1+ /CD31- /CD45- /Ter119- APCs. These protocols will allow investigators to prepare high quality APCs suitable for downstream analyses such as single cell RNA sequencing.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | e61694 |
Pages (from-to) | 1-7 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | Journal of Visualized Experiments |
Volume | 2020 |
Issue number | 162 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Aug 2020 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Neuroscience(all)
- Chemical Engineering(all)
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all)
- Immunology and Microbiology(all)