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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Mar 5.
Published in final edited form as: Cell Metab. 2013 Apr 11;17(5):644–656. doi: 10.1016/j.cmet.2013.03.008

Figure 1. Anatomy of Major Fat Depots in Rodents and Humans.

Figure 1

Several different names for particular fat depots in rodents (A) and humans (B) are used, as are different groupings of fat depots for physiological and clinical studies. The names and anatomies of the fat depots reviewed here are indicated.