Fig. 2.

Anatomical distribution of brown and white fat depots in the mouse. Brown fat depots are shown in brown and white fat depots are shown in pink. The visceral cavity is indicated by a dotted line. Notably, the anterior subcutaneous white adipose depot (asWAT) appears to be continuous with the interscapular white adipose depot (inscWAT) under obese conditions. The inscWAT and asWAT overlie the more internal interscapular and subscapular brown depots (inscBAT and subscBAT, respectively). cBAT, cervical brown adipose tissue; ingWAT, inguinal white adipose tissue; mWAT, mesenteric white adipose tissue; paBAT, peri-aortal brown adipose tissue; pgWAT, perigonadal white adipose tissue; prBAT, perirenal brown adipose tissue; rWAT, retroperitoneal white adipose tissue; savWAT, salivary gland white adipose tissue.