Sex differences in the distribution of adipose tissue in the Djungarian hamster Phodopus sungorus |
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| Authors: | D.Phil.Caroline M. Pond Dawn Sadler Christine A. Mattacks |
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| Affiliation: | aDepartment of Biology, The Open University, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, U.K. |
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| Abstract: | Female Djungarian hamsters (Phodopus sungorus) have proportionately more adipose tissue in superficial depots than males of similar age and body composition. In both sexes, the proportion in superficial depots increases with increasing fatness. This species may be useful as a model for human obesity because it becomes as obese as modern humans without genetic, surgical or dietary manipulation and the sex differences in adipose tissue distribution resemble those of humans. |
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| Keywords: | Phodopus sungorus adipose tissue distribution sex differences |
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