Table 1.

Terminal body mass, total and individual (inguinal, visceral, perirenal and dorsal white adipose tissue and inter‐scapular brown adipose tissue) adipose tissue mass, adipocyte mean size, systemic circulating adipokines, free fatty acid (FFA) and tissue triglyceride (TG: muscle and liver) concentration 13 weeks post‐surgery. Values are reported as mean±SEM

	CON Sham	CON LipX	FKO Sham	FKO LipX	P value
					Model	Group	Sur
Final body mass (g)	34.4±2.4	37.4±2.5	32.7±0.5	32.2±1.6	—	—	—
Adipose tissue mass (mg)					—	—	—
EWAT	0.97±0.18	0.66±0.13	0.99±0.10	0.26±0.05a	0.001	—	0.0009
IWAT	0.63±0.09	1.04±0.23a	0.40±0.05	0.42±0.10	0.034	0.011	—
VWAT	0.37±0.04	0.79±0.16a	0.45±0.05	0.43±0.06	0.041	0.075	0.026
PWAT	0.51±0.06	0.80±0.13a	0.36±0.05	0.40±0.07	0.046	0.017	—
DWAT	0.54±0.05	0.81±0.21	0.30±0.05	0.36±0.06	0.018	0.006	—
Total	2.33±0.25	3.70±0.07a	1.70±0.12	1.81±0.30	0.029	0.011	—
BAT	0.28±0.03	0.25±0.05	0.20±0.01	0.20±0.04	—	—	—
Adipocyte mean size (μm)
IWAT	50.4±1.72	49.3±0.76	53.95±2.56	52.23±1.68	—	—	—
VWAT	58.18±1.49	54.50±2.38	58.18±1.24	60.25±2.23	—	—	—
PWAT	53.82±1.90	54.40±2.50	58.94±2.59	56.93±2.59	—	—	—
Adipokine (μg mL−1)
Leptin	4918±621	2728±846a	3269±491	1484±430a	0.041	0.040	0.019
Resistin	1516±147	826±109a	725.5±195	767±287	0.011	0.02	—
Systemic FFA (mmol L−1)	0.55±0.04	0.51±0.02	0.57±0.04	0.45±0.03	—	—	—
Muscle TG (mg g−1 tissue)	25.6±4.9	19.7±3.8	23.2±4.9	28.1±11.2	—	—	—
Liver TG (mg g−1 tissue)	31.5±6.2	28.3±2.7	43.8±12.5	52.3±12.0	—	0.063	—

CON, Control; LipX, Lipectomy; Sur, Surgery; μm, micrometre.

Chart contains P values of model and main effect of group and surgery (— = not significant).

^a P ≤ 0.05, compared with respective control.