RNA was isolated from white adipose tissue of wild-type (WT) or C/EBPβ knockout (KO) mice, reverse transcribed and the expression of C/EBPβ (A), C/EBPα (B), 11βHSD1, (C) and DGAT2 (D), was assayed by real-time PCR. Results are the mean of 3 independent samples normalised to 18S +/− SEM, * indicates statistically significant expression compared with wild-type mice (p<0.05).