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Published in final edited form as: Obesity (Silver Spring). 2008 Jan 24;16(4):736–742. doi: 10.1038/oby.2007.128

Table 1.

Physical characteristics of the intestine, stomach, and liver of lean and obese rats at the onset and in well-established obesity

	Obesity onset		Well-established obesity
	Lean	Obese	Lean	Obese
Body weight (g)	87.9 ± 3.7^*	106.6 ± 4.1	389.5 ± 12.4^*	807.5 ± 18.7
Small intestine length (cm)	90.7 ± 1.0^*	103.7 ± 1.5	111.4 ± 1.9^*	136.1 ± 1.7
Small intestine weight (g)	3.6 ± 0.18^*	5.2 ± 0.16	5.9 ± 0.2^*	10.8 ± 0.3
Colon length (cm)	12.2 ± 0.31^*	14.1 ± 0.40	17.7 ± 0.7^*	21.1 ± 0.3
Colon weight (g)	0.58 ± 0.05^*	0.88 ± 0.02	1.21 ± 0.05^*	1.59 ± 0.06
Stomach weight (g)	0.73 ± 0.05	0.77 ± 0.04	1.88 ± 0.13^*	2.43 ± 0.14
Liver weight (g)	3.9 ± 0.2^*	5.3 ± 0.3	11.1 ± 0.4^*	23.0 ± 0.7

Results represent the mean ± s.e.m.

^*

P < 0.01.