Abstract

SANTAMARIA-SOLIS, L.; SERNA-CUELLAR, E.  and  INGELMO-INGELMO, I.. Quantification of the adipose tissue by stereology. Cir. plást. iberolatinoam. [online]. 2013, vol.39, suppl.1, pp.s74-s81. ISSN 1989-2055.  https://dx.doi.org/10.4321/S0376-78922013000500016.

The knowledge of the structure and function of the adipose tissue is not only relevant in relation with its role played in the lipidic metabolism or in endocrine disorders as diabetes. The fat tissue plays also an important role as mechanical support and in the modelling of organic contours (facial, for example); therefore its interest in the field of the Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery. The quantitative methodology has been employed from the very beginning of the histological science. The present study deals with the stereology as a set of unbiased tools that employ intrinsic geometrical features of the objects to quantify. In short, the stereology consists in a pool of morphometric methods that obtain tridimensional information from bidimensional elements (the tissue sections) using the geometrical characteristics of the structures of interest. We describe some stereological procedures leading to the unbiased estimate of: volume fraction of the adipose tissue, the relative number of adipocytes, and the relative length of microvessels of the adipose tissue.

Keywords : Adipocytes; Stereology; Optical disector.

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