Table 2.

The mean organ/tissue weights ±S.E.M. normalized to tibial length for NCD (±0.01%) CAP and HFD (±CAP)-fed wild type mice.

Organ/tissue (g/cm)	NCD	NCD + 0.01% CAP	HFD	HFD + 0.001% CAP	HFD + 0.003% CAP	HFD + 0.005% CAP	HFD + 0.01% CAP	HFD + 0.03% CAP
Heart	0.11 ± 0.01	0.11 ± 0.01	0.11 ± 0.004	0.10 ± 0.003	0.12 ± 0.01	0.11 ± 0.01	0.09 ± 0.004	0.1 ± 0.01
Liver	0.94 ± 0.05	0.81 ± 0.06	1.21 ± 0.06	1.24 ± 0.04	0.75 ± 0.05	0.79 ± 0.07	0.73 ± 0.03	0.84 ± 0.04
Kidneys	0.24 ± 0.01	0.21 ± 0.02	0.28 ± 0.02	0.3 ± 0.03	0.21 ± 0.01	0.19 ± 0.01	0.22 ± 0.01	0.21 ± 0.02
Spleen	0.05 ± 0.004	0.06 ± 0.004	0.08 ± 0.004	0.085 ± 0.002	0.08 ± 0.02	0.06 ± 0.01	0.05 ± 0.004	0.07 ± 0.01
Epididymal fat	0.27 ± 0.03	0.25 ± 0.03	0.87 ± 0.11	0.89 ± 0.14	0.76 ± 0.19	0.37 ± 0.06	0.53 ± 0.07	1.12 ± 0.21
Inguinal	0.15 ± 0.01	0.16 ± 0.01	1.26 ± 0.08	1.22 ± 0.02	0.46 ± 0.09	0.25 ± 0.03	0.34 ± 0.05	0.45 ± 0.1
Brown fat	0.08 ± 0.01	0.11 ± 0.02	0.28 ± 0.02	0.3 ± 0.03	0.25 ± 0.05	0.18 ± 0.03	0.17 ± 0.04	0.25 ± 0.03
Retroperitoneal fat	0.13 ± 0.06	0.07 ± 0.01	0.65 ± 0.05$$,**	0.70 ± 0.04$$,**	0.29 ± 0.07	0.18 ± 0.05	0.22 ± 0.04	0.33 ± 0.08

^$$Significance for P < 0.01 between NCD and HFD (±0.001% CAP) groups. **Significance for P < 0.01 between HFD (±0.001% CAP) and HFD (±CAP >0.001%) groups.