Adipose tissue cells in cold-acclimatised sheep
Cox, R.W.; Leat, W.M.; Chauca, D.; Peacock, M.A.; Bligh, J.
Research in Veterinary Science 25(1): 58-62
1978
ISSN/ISBN: 0034-5288 PMID: 705050 Document Number: 128769
The morphology and lipid content of adipose tissue from sheep subjected to cold acclimatization were examined. In two sheep the perirenal adipose tissue contained virtually no triglyceride (<2 mg/100 mg wet tissue) and the appearance on electron microscopy was typical of that of a depleted white fat cell. The morphological, chemical and physiological evidence indicates that, in the sheep, white adipose tissue does not revert to brown adipose tissue during depletion resulting from cold acclimatization.