TABLE 2.

Animal characteristics

	Male		Female
	WT	Alb−/−	WT	Alb−/−
Body weight (g)*	23.4 ± 0.6	21.4 ± 1.0	18.4 ± 0.3	18.1 ± 0.4
eWAT weight (g)*	0.27 ± 0.02	0.30 ± 0.05	0.12 ± 0.02	0.19 ± 0.03
Food intake (g/gBW/wk)*	1.4 ± 0.1	1.3 ± 0.1	1.7 ± 0.1	1.6 ± 0.1
Exercise capacity (min)*	11.0 ± 1.0	12.0 ± 0.8	15.8 ± 1.8	14.1 ± 0.7

Values are means ± SE. Food intake expressed as grams of food per day, normalized to grams of body weight. Exercise capacity expressed as time‐to‐exhaustion in an incremental exercise test on a treadmill. Statistical analysis by ANOVA. Main effect of sex (male different from female), *p < 0.05.

Abbreviation: eWAT, epididymal (gonadal) white adipose tissue.