Visceral Adipose Arterioles
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Isolation and Cannulation of Cerebral Parenchymal Arterioles
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2016
This manuscript describes a simple and reproducible protocol for isolation of intracerebral arterioles (a group of blood vessels encompassing parenchymal arterioles, penetrating arterioles and pre-capillary arterioles) from mice, to be used in pressure myography, immunofluorescence, biochemistry, and molecular studies.
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Preparing Cerebral Endothelial Tubes from Mouse Parenchymal Arterioles
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2025
This video demonstrates a method for isolating the endothelial tubes from mouse cerebral parenchyma. Through a combination of enzymatic digestion and mechanical dissociation, the process yields an intact tube with endothelial cells.
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White and Brown Adipose Depot Collection from Mouse Pup: A Surgical Procedure to Harvest the White Adipose Tissue and Brown Adipose Tissue from Mouse Pup
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2025
In this video, we demonstrate the surgical procedure to isolate the subcutaneous white adipose tissue and interscapular brown adipose tissue from a newborn mouse.
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Preparation Steps for Measurement of Reactivity in Mouse Retinal Arterioles Ex Vivo
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2018
Many vision-threatening ocular diseases are associated with dysfunctional retinal microvessels. Therefore, the measurement of retinal arteriole responses is important to investigate the underlying pathophysiological mechanisms. This article describes a detailed protocol for mouse retinal arteriole isolation and preparation to assess the effects of vasoactive substances on vascular diameter.
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Arteries and Arterioles
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2024
Arteries, the vasculature responsible for transporting blood from the heart, possess robust walls capable of enduring the elevated pressures exerted by the heartbeat. Arteries near the heart are especially thick-walled and enriched with elastic fibers across their three tunics, classifying them as elastic or conducting arteries. These arteries, usually with a diameter exceeding 10 mm, are characterized by their ability to dilate in response to the blood pumped from the heart's ventricles and...
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Changes in pressure or local oxygen demand can modify smooth-muscle tone, causing the arteriole to narrow or widen. These diameter changes alter perfusion to visceral fat and help match blood delivery with tissue requirements. Examining this responsiveness reveals whether vascular regulation remains adaptable under changing physiological conditions.
The endothelium helps coordinate the vessel’s response to local conditions by participating in vascular regulation alongside smooth muscle. Its function influences how vasoactive mediators affect diameter and blood flow. Assessing this coordination is important because endothelial impairment may indicate altered microvascular control within visceral adipose tissue.
Altered arteriole regulation may accompany obesity, inflammation, insulin resistance, and hypertension, linking adipose microvascular behavior with broader cardiometabolic dysfunction. Studying these vessels helps determine how changes in perfusion and vascular responsiveness relate to the metabolic environment of visceral fat and to cardiovascular disease mechanisms.
Experimental assessment can focus on how these arterioles respond to vasoactive mediators, pressure changes, or altered oxygen demand. Researchers can evaluate associated changes in vessel diameter and blood flow, using the responses to characterize vascular regulation. The resulting information supports investigation of microvascular dysfunction in visceral adipose tissue.
These vessels are studied when investigators want to connect adipose-tissue biology with cardiovascular regulation or cardiometabolic disease. Their responses provide a way to examine microvascular dysfunction in settings associated with obesity, inflammation, insulin resistance, or hypertension, making them relevant to disease-mechanism research and therapeutic investigation.
Measurements of vascular responsiveness can identify disturbed regulation of visceral adipose perfusion and clarify how the tissue interacts with the cardiovascular system. Such findings may help researchers evaluate potential therapies aimed at microvascular dysfunction and its relationship to cardiometabolic disease, although the experimental results must establish the specific vascular abnormality being addressed.