Abstract
Interference by lipids with fluorometric assay of DNA in adipose tissues using Hoechst 33258 was investigated. Mixed glycerides shifted the emission maximum of standard DNA and induced a dose-dependent increase in fluorescence intensity. Glycerides in the samples containing a known concentration of DNA yielded erroneously higher DNA concentrations. The DNA concentrations obtained from acetone-defatted white and brown adipose tissues (WAT and BAT) were lower than those of non-defatted ones, while DNA content did not differ in low lipid-containing skeletal muscle between defatted and non-defatted samples, indicating that large amounts of lipids interfere with DNA measurement using Hoechst 33258 and that acetone defatting is a simple method to avoid this interference. Using this defatting method, the cellularity of WAT and BAT was estimated in rats under various experimental conditions. Cold-acclimation and repetitive immobilization stress decreased the body weight gain and the epididymal WAT weight. Sucrose overfeeding increased WAT weight but not body weight. These treatments of 4 weeks' duration did not induce any significant difference in WAT cell number from controls, while cold-acclimation increased the tissue cell number as well as the BAT weight.
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