Copper in White Fat Cells (IMAGE)

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Copper in White Fat Cells

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A fluorescent probe creates a heat map of copper in white fat cells. Higher levels of copper are shown in yellow and red. The left panel shows normal levels of copper from fat cells of control mice, and the right panel shows cells deficient in copper.

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Credit: Lakshmi Krishnamoorthy and Joseph Cotruvo Jr./UC Berkeley

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