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. 2017 Dec 21;12(12):e0186811. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0186811

Table 2. Tissue weights at the time of sacrifice.


IL 10tm
6 months
Mean
± SEM
n = 16
C57Bl/6
6 months
Mean
± SEM
n = 16
p-value IL 10tm
12 months
Mean
± SEM
n = 21
C57Bl/6
12 months
Mean
± SEM
n = 14
p-value IL 10tm
23 months
Mean
± SEM
n = 19
C57Bl/6
23 months
Mean
± SEM
n = 23
p-value
Body Weight 24.71 ± 0.51 22.60 ± 0.35 0.0019 33.62 ± 1.19 25.75 ± 0.65 < 0.0001 27.80 ± 0.70 32.14 ± 1.4 0.0135
Heart
(% of BW)
0.577 ± 0.025 0.572 ± 0.022 0.9032 0.432 ± 0.017 0.488 ± 0.025 0.078 0.590 ± 0.028 0.539 ± 0.027 0.2010
Liver
(%of BW)
5.107 ± 0.126 4.879 ± 0.146 0.2464 4.903 ± 0.153 4.873 ± 0.158 0.8938 6.511 ± 0.375 5.125 ± 0.261 0.0034
Kidney
(% of BW)
1.531 ± 0.152 01.747 ± 0.144 0.3112 1.054 ± 0.036 1.289 ± 0.023 < 0.0001 1.507 ± 0.079 1.500 ± 0.072 0.9502
Brown Fat
(% of BW)
0.335 ± 0.069 0.266 ± 0.021 0.3479 0.357 ± 0.017 0.363 ± 0.023 0.8129 0.303 ± 0.021 0.407 ± 0.027 0.0056
Visceral Fat
(% of BW)
2.286 ± 0.271 1.564 ± 0.139 0.0244 3.446 ± 0.390 1.606 ± 0.211 0.0010 1.450 ±
0.353
2.723 ± 0.341 0.0159
Perinephric Fat
(% of BW)
0.477 ± 0.021 0.394 ± 0.075 0.3076 0.779 ± 0.088 0.562 ± 0.144 0.1949 0.480 ± 0.120 1.210 ± 0.200 0.0094
Subcutaneous Fat
(% of BW)
0.919 ± 0.047 0.782 ± 0.050 0.0565 2.074 ± 0.176 1.174 ± 0.110 0.0005 1.117 ± 0.296 2.134 ± 0.270 0.0166
Tibialis Anterior
(% of BW)
0.353 ± 0.011 0.425 ± 0.014 0.0005 0.282 ± 0.008 0.355 ± 0.009 < 0.0001 0.244 ± 0.012 0.259 ± 0.010 0.3195
Quadriceps
(% of BW)
1.271 ± 0.034 1.456 ± 0.015 < 0.0001 1.117 ± 0.027 1.389 ± 0.028 < 0.0001 0.860 ± 0.050 0.943 ± 0.037 0.1841
Gastroc-
nemius
(% of BW)
0.978 ± 0.026 1.123 ± 0.017 <0.0001 0.801 ± 0.021 0.963 ± 0.022 < 0.0001 0.725 ± 0.036 0.771 ± 0.028 0.3210
Extensor Digitorum Longus
(% of BW)
0.092 ± 0.003 0.102 ± 0.007 0.2264 0.062 ± 0.003 0.073 ± 0.002 0.0082 0.047 ± 0.004 0.060 ± 0.003 0.0242
Triceps
(% of BW)
0.771 ± 0.033 0.862 ± 0.034 0.0667 0.702 ± 0.018 0.837 ± 0.025 < 0.0001 0.530 ± 0.035 0.598 ± 0.029 0.9097
Soleus
(% of BW)
0.068 ± 0.005 0.074 ± 0.005 0.2263 0.052 ± 0.003 0.064 ± 0.002 0.0098 0.044 ± 0.004 0.046 ± 0.003 0.6175

Weights of tissues dissected at time of sacrifice. SEM = Standard error of the mean