Table 3.

Brain and peripheral tissue weights at euthanasia.

	NIH-31		KD		KS
Tissue	Control (10)	Stress (9)	Control (10)	Stress (10)	Control (10)	Stress (9)
Brain	2.24 ± 0.03	2.23 ± 0.01	2.20 ± 0.02	2.22 ± 0.02	2.20 ± 0.02	2.19 ± 0.01
Adrenal	0.06 ± 0.002	0.06 ± 0.003	0.06 ± 0.04	0.07 ± 0.006	0.06 ± 0.002	0.06 ± 0.005
Thymus	0.37 ± 0.03	0.32 ± 0.05*	0.36 ± 0.03	0.32 ± 0.02*	0.43 ± 0.03	0.35 ± 0.03*
Spleen	0.89 ± 0.04	0.81 ± 0.04	0.86 ± 0.04	0.83 ± 0.03	0.87 ± 0.05	0.85 ± 0.03
BAT	0.53 ± 0.03	0.61 ± 0.09	0.48 ± 0.04*, ###	0.47 ± 0.02*, ###	0.69 ± 0.04*	0.64 ± 0.04*
Perirenal	10.04 ± 0.89	10.03 ± 0.82	12.11 ± 0.97	12.97 ± 1.54	16.15 ± 1.36***	13.39 ± 1.88***
Epididymal	8.88 ± 0.63#	8.34 ± 0.61#	8.40 ± 0.74#	8.73 ± 0.51#	11.35 ± 0.74	9.32 ± 1.01
BAT (%BW)	0.11 ± 0.005	0.13 ± 0.02	0.10 ± 0.01##	0.10 ± 0.005##	0.13 ± 0.006	0.13 ± 0.09
Perirenal (%BW)	2.03 ± 0.17	2.08 ± 0.18	2.49 ± 0.17§	2.77 ± 0.33*	3.12 ± 0.21***	2.63 ± 0.28***
Epididymal (%BW)	1.80 ± 0.12Δ	1.73 ± 0.12Δ	1.72 ± 0.12Δ	1.85 ± 0.11Δ	2.20 ± 0.10	1.86 ± 0.16

Thymus: ^*Stress effect (p < 0.05).

Brown Adipose Tissue (BAT): Diet effect (p < 0.001), ^*different than NIH-31 (p < 0.05);

^###different than KS (p < 0.001).

Perirenal fat pad: Diet effect (p < 0.01), ^***different than NIH-31 (p < 0.001).

Epididymal fat pad: Diet effect (p < 0.05),

^#different than KS (p < 0.05).

BAT, (%BW): Diet effect (p < 0.05),

^##different than KS (p < 0.01).

Perirenal (%BW): Diet effect (p < 0.01), different than NIH-31,

^*(p < 0.05),

^***(p < 0.001).;

^§different than both NIH-31 and KS control groups (p < 0.05).

Epididymal (%BW): Trend for diet effect (p = 0.07),

^Δdifferent than KS (p < 0.05).