A quantitative study of human fat transplants in obese nude mice and their lean littermates.
Human fat cells from lean donors enlarge on transplantation into obese nude mice (genotype ob/ob nu/nu). On transplantation into lean nude mice human fat cells do not change significantly in size, even though they are much larger than mouse fat cells.
D000273:Adipose Tissue / Q000166:cytology / Q000637:transplantation*; D000818:Animals; D001835:Body Weight; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008819:Mice, Nude; D008820:Mice, Obese / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D014183:Transplantation, Heterologous; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous