Total RNA transcriptomic profiling of mouse thoracic and abdominal perivascular adipose tissue of mice with an adipocyte-specific deletion of PRDM16 and flox control mice.

Thoracic and abdominal perivascular adipose tissue (tPVAt and aPVAT) is in direct contact with the outer layer of the aorta. While tPVAT exhibits a thermogenic phenotype, aPVAT is mostly comprised of white adipocytes with a few scattered thermogenic adipocytes. To investigate the relevance of this change in adipocyte identity along the aorta, we used mice with an adipocyte-specific deletion of Prdm16 resulting in loss of thermogenic and gain of white adipocyte-like features and compare gene expression signature in these mice.