Brown adipose tissue uptake of triglyceride-rich lipoprotein-derived fatty acids in diabetic or obese mice under different temperature conditions

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Table 1 Number of animals and weight in groups and subgroups±

Included in study	Control	Diabetic (*)	Obese (+)
Room temperature	4	4	5
Acute cold	4	4	5
Cold acclimated	4	3	6

Weight (start experiment)	Control	Diabetic	Obese
Room temperature	19.3 ± 0.7	19.3 ± 0.5	19.0 ± 0.9
Acute cold	19.3 ± 0.7	19.2 ± 0.7	19.7 ± 0.5
Cold acclimated	19.8 ± 0.7	19.5 ± 0.5	20.2 ± 0.4

Weight (end of experiment)	Control	Diabetic	Obese
Room temperature	20.5 ± 1.0	17.7 ± 1.6	24.6 ± 1.4
Acute cold	20.8 ± 0.2	18.7 ± 0.7	22.4 ± 1.8
Cold acclimated	20.3 ± 1.2	18.6 ± 0.6	23.6 ± 0.5

(*) Drop-out caused by insufficiently developed hyperglycemia (n = 5) or reaching of humane endpoint due to combination of cold exposure and hypoglycemia shortly after streptozocin administration (n = 2)
( +) Drop-out caused by equipment failure