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The prevalence of obesity has already epidemic dimensions. Recently, the obesogens have been identified as the main cause in addition to excessive food intake, the lack of physical activity and the genetic background. These substances damage the metabolic processes, interfere with the hormonal functions and impair the energy balance in behalf of gaining weight and obesity. The theoretical part of this work deals with obesity, adipose tissue, lipid droplet and obesogens. From the obesogens there is closely specified a group of persistent organic pollutants (POP) from which one representative was used in the practical part of this work. The aim of the practical part was to describe the cellular model of differentiation the mesenchymal stem cell into adipocytes and to investigate the effect of one of the most frequently occurring obesogen on the expression genes of lipid metabolism and insulin signalling pathway. The morphological changes were observed in cells during differentiation (at days 0, 4, 10 and 21). The mesenchymal cells of the elongated spindle shape changed into adipocytes filled with lipid droplets. Oil Red O staining was used for quantification of accumulated lipids. The differentiation to adipocytes was confirmed by fluorescence immunocytochemistry using a specific protein FABP4. The... |
