Table 1.

Density (mean ± SE) of TH-immunoreactive parenchymal nerve fibers (no. of fibers per 100 adipocytes); no. of white adipocytes × 10⁶; no. of brown adipocytes (UCP1-negative) × 10⁶; no. of brown adipocytes (UCP1-positive) × 10⁶ in the different depots of the adipose organ of adult Sv129 female mice kept at 28 °C or 6 °C for 10 days

	TH fiber density	No. of white adipocytes	No. of brown adipocytes (UCP1–)	No. of brown adipocytes (UCP1+)
ASC
28 °C	12.32 ± 7.28	15.64 ± 2.52	2.13 ± 0.25	72.52 ± 6
6 °C	44.71 ± 7.85*	8.66 ± 1.54*	11.2 ± 2.96*	73.57 ± 5.3
PSC
28 °C	1.01 ± 0.16	19.21 ± 0.23	0.94 ± 0.48	0.00
6 °C	12.44 ± 1.79**	15.69 ± 1.22*	3.76 ± 1.05*	5.52 ± 1.06***
PSC
28 °C	77.55 ± 1.55	0.14 ± 0.10	0.05 ± 0.03	4.71 ± 0.72
6 °C	72.32 ± 25.61	0.00	0.13 ± 0.04	8.88 ± 2.19
MES
28 °C	0.92 ± 0.08	9.48 ± 0.79	0	0
6 °C	19.71 ± 1.54**	2.76 ± 1.55**	10.43 ± 2.31**	0.17 ± 0.03*
AP
28 °C	16.03 ± 1.57	22.32 ± 1.35	8.9 ± 1.6	15.06 ± 3.27
6 °C	38.26 ± 0.82**	9.40 ± 1.17***	7.36 ± 0.96	24.63 ± 2.79*

ASC, anterior subcutaneous; PSC, posterior subcutaneous; MED, mediastinal; MES, mesenteric; AP, abdomino-pelvic.

^*P < 0.05;

^**P < 0.01;

^***P < 0.001.