Extended Data Fig. 3: LPS treatment induces lipid droplet formation in microglia and in BV2 cells. | Nature Neuroscience

Extended Data Fig. 3: LPS treatment induces lipid droplet formation in microglia and in BV2 cells.

From: Lipid-droplet-accumulating microglia represent a dysfunctional and proinflammatory state in the aging brain

Extended Data Fig. 3

a,b, 3-month-old male mice were given intraperitoneal (i.p.) injections of LPS (1 mg/kg BW) for four days. Representative confocal images of BODIPY+ and Tmem119+ in the hippocampus (a) and of BODIPY and Iba1 staining in the cortex, corpus callosum, and thalamus (b). c-e, Lipidome profiling of lipid droplets from LPS-treated BV2 cells, primary microglia, and liver tissue. c, Pie charts showing that the lipid composition of lipid droplets from young and aged microglia is highly similar, but differs between young and aged liver tissue. d,e, Distribution of MAG chain lengths (d) and TAG saturation levels (e) of lipid droplets isolated from LPS-treated BV2 cells and from microglia and liver tissue from aged mice. young= 5-month-old male mice, old= 20-month-old male mice; n = 4 mice per group. Data in a-b were replicated in at least two independent experiments. Error bars represent mean ± s.e.m. Scale bars, 20 μm.

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