Relative shrinkage of adipocytes by paraffin in proportion to plastic embedding in human adipose tissue before and after weight loss

Obesity Research and Clinical Practice

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Verhoef, Sanne P M ^a   Van Dijk, Paul ^a   Westerterp, Klaas R ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adipocytes; Cell size; Paraffin; Technovit 8100

Indexed keywords

PARAFFIN;

ACCURACY; ADIPOCYTE; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; BODY MASS; CALORIC INTAKE; CELL SIZE; CELL STRUCTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADIPOCYTES; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; CELL SIZE; DIET, REDUCING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PARAFFIN; PLASTIC EMBEDDING; PLASTICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TISSUE EMBEDDING; WEIGHT LOSS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84872121147     PISSN: 1871403X     EISSN: 18780318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orcp.2012.03.001     Document Type: Article

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