A 72-hour high fat diet increases transcript levels of the neuropeptide galanin in the dorsal hippocampus of the rat

Table 1 Mean body parameters

Measurement	Control diet	High fat diet	p value
Body weights
Body weight, initial (g)	299.4 ± 0.46	298.7 ± 0.66	0.802
Body weight, final (g)	318.4 ± 0.445	320.1 ± 0.772	0.528
72-Hour weight gain (g)	19.05 ± 0.36	21.28 ± 0.30	0.093
Final tissue weights
Inguinal adipose tissue (g)	6.32 ± 0.070	6.71 ± 0.101	0.326
Epididymal adipose tissue (g)	3.61 ± 0.049	3.89 ± 0.072	0.335
Retroperitoneal adipose tissue (g)	3.31 ± 0.029	3.53 ± 0.081	0.444
Omental adipose tissue (g)	0.183 ± 0.011	0.155 ± 0.004	0.460
Pericardial adipose tissue (g)	0.586 ± 0.009	0.534 ± 0.015	0.380
Total white adipose tissue (g)	14.2 ± 0.152	14.8 ± 0.178	0.376
Subscapular brown adipose tissue (g)	0.43 ± 0.006	0.43 ± 0.008	0.994
Liver weight (g)	14.4 ± 0.131	13.3 ± 0.080	0.050

After 72 h of control (n = 10) or high fat diet (n = 10), animals were weighed and fasted for 2 h before sacrifice. Inguinal, epididymal, retroperitoneal, omental, and pericardial white adipose depots; subscapular brown adipose; and livers were dissected and weighed. Statistics were performed using t test.

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