Growth and Fat Deposition in the Mouse
- 31 December 1955
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physiological Society in American Journal of Physiology-Legacy Content
- Vol. 184 (1) , 52-54
- https://doi.org/10.1152/ajplegacy.1955.184.1.52
Abstract
Mice of the C57BL/Fn strain and the I/Fn strain were placed after weaning on a diet containing 50% fat. The carcass fat content of C57BL/Fn mice increased linearly with the age of the animals. Plotting fat content against fat-free weight for young animals of the C57BL/Fn and all animals of the I/Fn strains yielded a straight line of slope 0.1. The data for older C57 animals (3–5 months) did not fall on this line. Obesity is defined in terms of the regression of fat content on fat-free weight.Keywords
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