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Pre- and postnatal study of the carcass growth of sheep. 2. The cellular growth of adipose tissues

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2010

T. E. Broad ,
A. S. Davies  and
G. Y. Tan
T. E. Broad
Affiliation:
Applied Biochemistry Division, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Palmerston North, New Zealand
A. S. Davies
Affiliation:
Department of Anatomy and Physiology, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
G. Y. Tan
Affiliation:
Department of Anatomy and Physiology, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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Abstract

The diameter of adipocytes from subcutaneous, intermuscular and internal cavity fat depots of 5 pre- and 14 postnatal Romney female sheep was measured, the volume calculated, and the number per depot computed from the weight of triglyceride in the depots.

The rates of increase of adipocyte volume relative to the increase in weight of total side adipose tissue, and of the fat depots and their chemical components, were calculated using linear regression analyses of the natural logarithmic transformed data. These logarithmic regression equations were used to estimate the volume of adipocytes in sheep at different stages of development. The total numbers of adipocytes at each stage of growth were estimated using linear double logarithmic regressions of adipocyte number on carcass weight.

The growth of total adipose tissue and of each of the fat depots occurred mainly by an increase in the adipocyte volume, which increased over 70-fold from 120 days gestation to 5 years of age. The increase in adipocyte volume during growth occurred at similar rates in all of the fat depots and no significant differences between the volumes of adipocytes from the fat depots were found within sheep of similar carcass weight. During the same growth period the total number of adipocytes increased about 6-fold. Differences in the relative rates of growth of the fat depots were attributed to cellular multiplication rather than to cellular enlargement.

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Animal Production , Volume 31 , Issue 1 , August 1980 , pp. 73 - 79
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Copyright © British Society of Animal Science 1980

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