Table 2.
Mass (g) of adipose tissue
| White adipose tissue |
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| Intraabdominal–gonadal | Retroperitoneal | Omental | Brown adipose tissue | Adiposity index | ||
| Regimen 1 | ||||||
| Summer | ||||||
| VAC1 (n = 8) | 2.1 ± 0.3b | 1.3 ± 0.2c | 0.8 ± 0.1b | 0.5 ± 0.1c | 1.7 ± 0.2b | |
| VAD1 (n = 8) | 0.8 ± 0.1c | 0.4 ± 0.0d | 0.5 ± 0.5b | 0.2 ± 0.0c | 1.0 ± 0.1b | |
| Hibernation | ||||||
| VAC1 (n = 5) | 10.3 ± 0.7a | 7.0 ± 0.7a | 2.0 ± 0.4a | 1.9 ± 0.2a | 6.1 ± 0.7a | |
| VAD1 (n = 7) | 7.1 ± 0.9a | 4.2 ± 0.4b | 2.0 ± 0.2a | 1.3 ± 0.1b | 4.9 ± 0.4a | |
| Regimen 2 | ||||||
| Summer | ||||||
| VAC2 (n = 8) | 9.0 ± 0.8 | 4.7 ± 0.3 | 2.6 ± 0.2 | 1.5 ± 0.1b | 4.7 ± 0.4 | |
| VAD2 (n = 8) | 9.2 ± 1.0 | 4.9 ± 0.3 | 2.3 ± 0.1 | 1.6 ± 0.2b | 4.9 ± 0.5 | |
| Hibernation | ||||||
| VAC2 (n = 7) | 12.0 ± 0.9 | 5.6 ± 0.3 | 3.8 ± 0.3* | 2.1 ± 0.2a | 6.2 ± 0.3 | |
| VAD2 (n = 8) | 9.9 ± 0.7 | 5.0 ± 0.4 | 2.2 ± 0.3 | 2.1 ± 0.1a | 5.4 ± 0.4 | |
| Spring | ||||||
| VAC2 (n = 7) | 9.3 ± 1.0 | 5.4 ± 0.4 | 2.7 ± 0.2 | 2.0 ± 0.2a | 5.6 ± 0.6 | |
| VAD2 (n = 7) | 8.5 ± 0.6 | 4.5 ± 0.3 | 2.3 ± 0.2 | 1.8 ± 0.1a | 5.3 ± 0.3 | |
Data are presented as mean ± SE. Within each site and regimen, groups with different superscripted letters differ significantly (p < 0.05; Tukey posthoc test with general linear model ANOVA).
*
This value was significantly (P < 0.05) different from all other omental WAT measures for regimen 2.