Morphology of Orbital Adipose and ASCs. During routine upper
eyelid blepharoplasty, the nasal adipose depot has a more pale appearance
compared with the yellowish central adipose depot. After blepharoplasty,
central and nasal adipose tissues were separately isolated and
subjected to orbital ASC isolation as described in the Methods section.
Figure 1 shows the morphology of orbital ASCs isolated from the
central (A) and nasal adipose depots (B). Cells from both populations,
particularly the nasal-derived cells, exhibit long cellular processes
reminiscent of cultured oligodendrocytes.