- Collection:
- Enhancing Global Research and Education in STEM at Spelman College (G-STEM)
- Title:
- Characterization of preadipocytes associated to metabolic disease in obesity, 2014
- Creator:
- Johnson, Justice
Malagon, Maria M.
Oliver, Tiffany - Date of Original:
- 2014
- Subject:
- Science
Technology--Study and teaching - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798 - Medium:
- abstracts (summaries)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- The goal of this study was to characterize how preadipocytes differentiate under conditions of obesity. Accordingly, adipocyte staining using oil red O was conducted using differentiating 3T3-L1 cells. The cytoskeleton increases and accelerates the process of adipogenesis. Therefore, cytoskeletal proteins septin 11, vimentin, tubulin, and actin were also extracted from adipocytes on day 0, 3, 6, 8, 10 of differentiation and examined via western blot. Results from the analysis verified the identity of each of the proteins being present in the cytoskeleton. The results from the adipocytes differentiate into mature adipocyte cells. Thus, these results have contributed largely to research on metabolic syndrome in obesity.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/sc.gstem:2014_johnson_justice
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 page
- Original Collection:
- Enhancing Global Research and Education in STEM at Spelman College (G-STEM)
- Holding Institution:
- Spelman College
- Rights:
-
