Key result
Label-free brightfield microscopy accurately and quickly measures adipocyte fat accumulation versus biochemical staining.
Why the study?
Existing biochemical methods for measuring fat accumulation in cell culture require validation and simpler high-throughput alternatives are needed.
A simple, label-free, high-throughput image-based method was developed and validated for measuring fat accumulation in cells.
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May enable high-throughput adipocyte screening in metabolic research; leaves open clinical validation and translation.
A number of biochemical methods are available for measuring fat accumulation in cell culture. The authors report a simple image-based method for measuring fat accumulation in adipocytes using a combination of high-throughput brightfield microscopy and image analysis, which was validated biochemically using Oil-Red-O. The quickest and most accurate method of analysis was one based on thresholding brightfield images and determining the area of fat droplets per image. Thus, the authors have developed a simple high-throughput, label-free method for measuring fat accumulation that is applicable to any cell or tissue type where fat droplets are visible under light microscopy.
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Dragunow et al. (2007) studied Fat accumulation in cell culture. Image-based method using high-throughput brightfield microscopy and image analysis vs. Biochemical method using Oil-Red-O was evaluated on Fat accumulation measurement accuracy and speed. A simple, label-free image-based method using high-throughput brightfield microscopy accurately and quickly measured fat accumulation in adipocytes.
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