出版社:American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
摘要:The body weight and fat content of young, growing rats were kept low by regularly performed endurance exercise by the rats or by restriction of their food intake over a period of 14 wk. The cellular character of epididymal fat pads was studied to determine if the reduction in fat was due to a decrease in the number of adipose cells, their size, or both. Compared with the sedentary freely eating control animals, both the exercisers and the sedentary paired-weight animals, which had their food intake restricted in order to maintain their body weights approximately the same as those of the exercisers, had significantly lighter epididymal fat pads ( P 6 vs. 6.89 ± 0.55 × 106 cells/pad; P P P 6 cells and they contained 0.319 ± 0.024 μg of lipid/cell. These results demonstrate that exercise in addition to food restriction in early life is effective in reducing the rate of accumulation of cells in epididymal fat pads of rats.
关键词:appetite ; swimming ; weight gain ; body composition ; adipose cells