Table 2. Body and WAT site weight and composition of adult male and female Wistar rats.

The data correspond to the mean ± sem of 6 different animals. Statistical significance of the differences between groups was established with a 2-way anova; post-hoc Tuckey test: an asterisk * represents P < 0.05 differences between sex groups. Comparison of differences between the sums of sites was done using the Student’s t test.

Parameter	Unit	Site	Male	Female	p site	p sex
Body weight	g	–	373 ± 6.1	232 ± 8.2	–	<0.0001
WAT weight	g	SC	12.2 ± 0.20*	7.02 ± 0.25	<0.0001	<0.0001
		ME	4.94 ± 0.49*	3.92 ± 0.33
		PE	7.34 ± 0.64*	4.83 ± 0.39
		RE	6.29 ± 0.79*	2.79 ± 0.35
		Σ WAT	30.8 ± 1.7	18.6 ± 0.93	–	<0.0001
	% BW	SC	3.28 ± 0.05	3.04 ± 0.11	<0.0001	NS
		ME	1.33 ± 0.18	1.69 ± 0.13
		PE	1.97 ± 0.13	2.10 ± 0.21
		RE	1.69 ± 0.22	1.22 ± 0.17
		Σ WAT	8.26 ± 0.47	8.05 ± 0.52	–	NS
Protein	mg/g	SC	63.1 ± 11.6	51.8 ± 3.3	<0.0001	NS
		ME	74.2 ± 7.4	84.2 ± 2.6
		PE	44.3 ± 1.6	54.4 ± 2.4
		RE	65.1 ± 6.3	62.9 ± 4.7
RNA	μg/g	SC	248 ± 51	219 ± 19	<0.0001	NS
		ME	880 ± 84	793 ± 88
		PE	94.3 ± 6.0	119 ± 10
		RE	48.8 ± 4.1	78.4 ± 4.1

Notes.

% BW

Percentage of body weight