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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Apr 28.
Published in final edited form as: Obesity (Silver Spring). 2009 Oct 22;18(4):682–689. doi: 10.1038/oby.2009.345

Table 1.

Mean ± s.e.m. (g) inguinal white adipose tissue (IWAT), epididymal white adipose tissue (EWAT), retroperitoneal white adipose tissue (RWAT), and total WAT pad masses of Siberian hamsters in experiment 2 with sham control or hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus lesions (PVHx) that were bilateral or unilateral

Lesion type
Left
Right
Sham Ipsi-unilateral Bilateral Sham Contra-unilateral Bilateral
IWAT 0.68 ± 0.06a 0.92 ± 0.08b 1.22 ± 0.18b 0.66 ± 0.06a 0.90 ± 0.09b 1.22 ± 0.18b
EWAT 0.30 ± 0.01a 0.44 ± 0.02b 0.57 ± 0.04c 0.30 ± 0.02a 0.47 ± 0.05b,c 0.58 ± 0.02c
RWAT 0.07 ± 0.01a 0.12 ± 0.02b 0.16 ± 0.02b 0.07 ± 0.01a 0.12 ± 0.01b 0.16 ± 0.02b
Total pads 1.05 ± 0.07a 1.47 ± 0.01b 1.95 ± 0.32c 1.04 ± 0.08a 1.50 ± 0.12b,c 1.96 ± 0.29c

For each individual fat pad, nonshared letters (a,b,c) indicate statistically significant differences (P < 0.05).