Department of Surgery, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA.
Metabolism. 2013 Nov;62(11):1557-61. doi: 10.1016/j.metabol.2013.07.011. Epub 2013 Sep 5.
Adipose tissue inflammation is a cause of obesity-related metabolic disease. Natural killer (NK) cells are an understudied cell type in the context of obesity. The goal of this study was to determine the phenotype of human adipose tissue NK cells.
We used flow cytometry phenotyping to study adipose tissue and peripheral blood NK cells from obese and lean humans.
Human adipose tissue NK cells, relative to peripheral blood NK cells, express increased levels of activation markers. Adipose tissue NK cells also demonstrate an activated phenotype in obese relative to lean subjects, with increased expression of the activating receptor NKG2D.
These data are the first detailed phenotypic characterization of human adipose tissue NK cells, and suggest a role for NK cells in adipose tissue inflammation in obesity.
脂肪组织炎症是肥胖相关代谢疾病的一个原因。自然杀伤 (NK) 细胞在肥胖背景下是一种研究不足的细胞类型。本研究的目的是确定人脂肪组织 NK 细胞的表型。
我们使用流式细胞术表型分析来研究肥胖和瘦人脂肪组织和外周血 NK 细胞。
与外周血 NK 细胞相比,人脂肪组织 NK 细胞表达高水平的激活标志物。与瘦人相比,肥胖人的脂肪组织 NK 细胞也表现出激活表型,其激活受体 NKG2D 的表达增加。
这些数据首次详细描述了人脂肪组织 NK 细胞的表型特征,并提示 NK 细胞在肥胖脂肪组织炎症中可能发挥作用。