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. 2023:2662:183-192.
doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-3167-6_16.

Subcutaneous Transplantation of White Adipose Tissue

Yu-Sheng Yeh  1   2   3 , Mari Iwase  4   5 , Satoko Kawarasaki  4 , Jungin Kwon  4 , Astrid Rodriguez-Velez  1 , Xiangyu Zhang  1   2   3 , Se-Jin Jeong  1 , Tsuyoshi Goto  6   4 , Babak Razani  7   8   9
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Subcutaneous Transplantation of White Adipose Tissue

Yu-Sheng Yeh et al. Methods Mol Biol. 2023.

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Abstract

In the research setting, white adipose tissue (WAT) transplantation, also known as fat transplantation, is often used to understand the physiological function of adipocytes or associated stromal vascular cells such as macrophages in the context of local and systemic metabolism. The mouse is the most common animal model used where WAT from a donor is transferred either to a subcutaneous site of the same organism or to a subcutaneous region of a recipient. Here, we describe in detail the procedure for heterologous fat transplantation, and, given the need for survival surgery, peri- and postoperative care and subsequent histological confirmation of fat grafts will also be discussed.

Keywords: Adipose tissue; Adipose tissue histology; Fat transplantation; Lipodystrophy; Mouse surgery.

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