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Murine Adipose Organ Development

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The adipose organ of fetal rats is dissectible. In this plate, the fetal adipose organ of a rat at gestational day 20 is shown in the upper panel. It is visually evident that most of the organ is represented by the anterior subcutaneous depot and that all other sites are poorly developed at this gestational stage.

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  1. Professor of Anatomy, Director, Center of Obesity, University of Ancona (Politecnica delle Marche), Ancona, Italy

    Saverio Cinti MD

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Cinti, S. (2018). Murine Adipose Organ Development. In: Obesity, Type 2 Diabetes and the Adipose Organ. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40522-3_12

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