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The skeleton is an adipose organ: (A) Total lipid content in metabolically active tissues (highlighted in black) and parts of the skeleton (highlighted in red) from 12-week-old female C57BL6/J mice. Mean ± SEM, n = 5; (B) Environmental scanning electron microscopy of a distal tibial specimen from 12-week-old female C57BL6/J mice revealing both cortical bone as well as adipocyte-containing bone marrow (red box indicates area in the tibia, scale bar: 0.1 mm).
