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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Mol Endocrinol. 2015 Apr 27;54(3):263–275. doi: 10.1530/JME-15-0048

Table 2.

Unilocular and multilocular adipose cell distribution in the fetal perirenal fat depot at day 130 of gestation in relation to maternal nutrition (n=7/group)

Maternal Nutrition Control UN P value, C vs UN
Unilocular fat
 Volume density, % 51.3±3.79 41.9±4.47* 0.137
 Total mass, g 14.0±1.07 8.2±1.01¥ 0.002
 Relative mass, g/kg fetus 3.3±0.26 2.4±0.37 0.078
Multilocular fat
 Volume density, % 48.6±3.81 58.0±4.47* 0.135
 Total mass, g 13.4±1.37 11.3±0.96¥ 0.231
 Relative mass, g/kg fetus 3.1±0.29 3.1±0.18 0.954

UN, undernourished. Within a nutritional group values with the same symbol differ from each other, P<0.05.