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Fig. 1 | Nutrition & Metabolism

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From: Apolipoprotein CIII overexpression exacerbates diet-induced obesity due to adipose tissue higher exogenous lipid uptake and retention and lower lipolysis rates

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ApoCIII transgenic (Tg) mice accumulate more body fat compared with non-transgenic (NTg) mice after 8 weeks of high fat diet. Body weight (a), weight gain (b) (n = 6-7), daily food intake (c), resting metabolism (d) (n = 4), relative weight of adipose tissue depots (e) (n = 6-7) and plasma leptin levels (f) (n = 13). Mean ± SE. Student’s t test, * P < 0.05 and # P < 0.07. Representative tomography images (g): The less dense adipose tissue appears as darker gray than more dense organs such as muscle, bone and others (middle images). Lung was excluded of the region of interest in each image (upper right images). The images were binarized accordantly to the established threshold to make adipose tissue show up in white (right images)

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