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Figure 2 | Lipids in Health and Disease

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From: Is oxygen a key factor in the lipodystrophy phenotype?

Figure 2

Differential effects of NRTI treatment on human adipose cells cultured under different pO 2 . (A) Effects of NRTI treatment on mtDNA contents. Cells were cultured for 10 days as preadipocytes (P) or with Mix medium (A) under normoxia (20%) or in the presence of 100 μM DFO (DFO) plus a cocktail of 10 μM AZT and ddC (NRTI, black bars), or in the presence of 100 μM DFO but without the NRTI cocktail (C, hatched bars). Cell mtDNA was quantified and expressed per million cells (mtDNA/106 cells). n = 3, ** p < 0.001. (B) Effects of NRTI treatment on TG accumulation. Cells were cultured in the same experimental conditions than in panel (A) and TG were quantified and data were normalized with respect to the control value obtained in adipocytes allowed to differentiate under normoxia condition (20% A, hatched bar, OD495 nm = 0.25). n = 3, ** p < 0.001. (C) Effects of NRTI treatment on adipocyte marker expression. Cells were cultured in the same experimental conditions than in panel (A), RNA was extracted and expression of the PPARγ, leptin genes was followed by quantitative PCR. n = 2.

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