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Journal of Lipid Research, Vol. 12, 706-714, November 1971
Copyright © 1971 by Lipid Research, Inc.
The Rockefeller University, New York 10021, and the Harriet G. Bird Memorial Laboratory, Stow, Massachusetts 01775
Cell size and number of three adipose depots, epididymal, retroperitoneal, and subcutaneous, were determined during growth of the obese Zucker rat ("fatty") and nonobese Zucker control. Cellularity of these depots in the adult "fatty" was compared with that in nonobese controls and in nonobese Zucker rats made obese by ventromedial hypothalamic lesions. Epididymal and retroperitoneal depots in the nonobese rat grew by cell enlargement and increase in cell number until the 14th wk, when number became fixed; further increase in depot size occurred by cell enlargement. The subcutaneous depot added cells until the 26th wk. In the Zucker "fatty," cell number increased until the 26th wk in all depots, accompanied by extreme cell enlargement. The enlarged adipose depots of the adult Zucker "fatty," when compared with the nonobese control, are the result of both hypertrophy and hyperplasia. Depot enlargement in the lesioned animal is the result of hypertrophy. "Fatties" have more cells in adipose depots than do lesioned rats. Genetic obesity in the Zucker rat is clearly different from the obesity produced by hypothalamic lesioning.
Supplementary key words adipocyte cell size cell number hypothalamic obesity subcutaneous fat depot
Submitted on March 15, 1971
Accepted on June 24, 1971
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