Feasibility of quantifying change in immune white cells in abdominal adipose tissue in response to an immune modulator in clinical obesity

• Fred R. Sattler ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Fred R. Sattler, Melissa Mert, Ishwarya Sankaranarayanan, Wendy J. Mack, Lauriane Galle-Treger, Evelyn Gonzalez, Lilit Baronikian, Kyuwan Lee, Pedram Shafiei Jahani, Howard N. Hodis, Christina Dieli-Conwright, Omid Akbari

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: fsattler@usc.edu

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1986-6803

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• Melissa Mert ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Fred R. Sattler, Melissa Mert, Ishwarya Sankaranarayanan, Wendy J. Mack, Lauriane Galle-Treger, Evelyn Gonzalez, Lilit Baronikian, Kyuwan Lee, Pedram Shafiei Jahani, Howard N. Hodis, Christina Dieli-Conwright, Omid Akbari

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Ishwarya Sankaranarayanan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Fred R. Sattler, Melissa Mert, Ishwarya Sankaranarayanan, Wendy J. Mack, Lauriane Galle-Treger, Evelyn Gonzalez, Lilit Baronikian, Kyuwan Lee, Pedram Shafiei Jahani, Howard N. Hodis, Christina Dieli-Conwright, Omid Akbari

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Wendy J. Mack ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Fred R. Sattler, Melissa Mert, Ishwarya Sankaranarayanan, Wendy J. Mack, Lauriane Galle-Treger, Evelyn Gonzalez, Lilit Baronikian, Kyuwan Lee, Pedram Shafiei Jahani, Howard N. Hodis, Christina Dieli-Conwright, Omid Akbari

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Lauriane Galle-Treger ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Fred R. Sattler, Melissa Mert, Ishwarya Sankaranarayanan, Wendy J. Mack, Lauriane Galle-Treger, Evelyn Gonzalez, Lilit Baronikian, Kyuwan Lee, Pedram Shafiei Jahani, Howard N. Hodis, Christina Dieli-Conwright, Omid Akbari

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Evelyn Gonzalez ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Fred R. Sattler, Melissa Mert, Ishwarya Sankaranarayanan, Wendy J. Mack, Lauriane Galle-Treger, Evelyn Gonzalez, Lilit Baronikian, Kyuwan Lee, Pedram Shafiei Jahani, Howard N. Hodis, Christina Dieli-Conwright, Omid Akbari

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Lilit Baronikian ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Fred R. Sattler, Melissa Mert, Ishwarya Sankaranarayanan, Wendy J. Mack, Lauriane Galle-Treger, Evelyn Gonzalez, Lilit Baronikian, Kyuwan Lee, Pedram Shafiei Jahani, Howard N. Hodis, Christina Dieli-Conwright, Omid Akbari

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Kyuwan Lee ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Fred R. Sattler, Melissa Mert, Ishwarya Sankaranarayanan, Wendy J. Mack, Lauriane Galle-Treger, Evelyn Gonzalez, Lilit Baronikian, Kyuwan Lee, Pedram Shafiei Jahani, Howard N. Hodis, Christina Dieli-Conwright, Omid Akbari

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Ostrow School of Dentistry, Division of Physical Therapy and Biokinesiology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Population Sciences, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

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• Pedram Shafiei Jahani ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Fred R. Sattler, Melissa Mert, Ishwarya Sankaranarayanan, Wendy J. Mack, Lauriane Galle-Treger, Evelyn Gonzalez, Lilit Baronikian, Kyuwan Lee, Pedram Shafiei Jahani, Howard N. Hodis, Christina Dieli-Conwright, Omid Akbari

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Howard N. Hodis ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Fred R. Sattler, Melissa Mert, Ishwarya Sankaranarayanan, Wendy J. Mack, Lauriane Galle-Treger, Evelyn Gonzalez, Lilit Baronikian, Kyuwan Lee, Pedram Shafiei Jahani, Howard N. Hodis, Christina Dieli-Conwright, Omid Akbari

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Christina Dieli-Conwright ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Fred R. Sattler, Melissa Mert, Ishwarya Sankaranarayanan, Wendy J. Mack, Lauriane Galle-Treger, Evelyn Gonzalez, Lilit Baronikian, Kyuwan Lee, Pedram Shafiei Jahani, Howard N. Hodis, Christina Dieli-Conwright, Omid Akbari

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Division of Population Sciences, Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America

  Affiliation Ostrow School of Dentistry, Division of Physical Therapy and Biokinesiology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Omid Akbari

  Contributed equally to this work with: Fred R. Sattler, Melissa Mert, Ishwarya Sankaranarayanan, Wendy J. Mack, Lauriane Galle-Treger, Evelyn Gonzalez, Lilit Baronikian, Kyuwan Lee, Pedram Shafiei Jahani, Howard N. Hodis, Christina Dieli-Conwright, Omid Akbari

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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