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Science 23 August 1963:
Vol. 141. no. 3582, pp. 718 - 719
DOI: 10.1126/science.141.3582.718
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Fatness of the Total Body as Estimated from Measurements on the Eviscerated Carcass

Grover C. Pitts 1 and Guy Hollifield 1

1 Departments of Physiology and Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville

In mice of the genetically obese strain with body fatness below 28 percent, fatness of the eviscerated carcass equaled fatness of the total body. Above 28 percent, the two values diverged with the eviscerated carcass being the higher. In the fattest individuals the prediction of total body fatness from measurements made on the eviscerated carcass may be in error by + 6.5 percent-fatness. When total body fatness exceeded about 25 percent, visceral depots no longer participated proportionately, and probably did not participate at all in further fat accretion.

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