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Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 237: R68-R73, 1979;
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AJP - Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, Vol 237, Issue 1 68-R73, Copyright © 1979 by American Physiological Society

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Body weight and body composition of male rats following hypothalamic lesions

R. E. Keesey, J. S. Mitchel and J. W. Kemnitz

Carcass analyses were performed on 160 male rats maintaining reduced, normal, or elevated levels of body weight following lateral hypothalamic (LH), sham (control), or ventromedial hypothalamic (VMH) lesions, respectively. Extracted body lipid (ranging from 26 to 738% of the control mean) correlated highly (r = +0.95) with the level of maintained body weight (which ranged from 67 to 191% of control). Neither the nonfat solids (which ranged from 60 to 123% of control) contributed significantly to the variance in body weight (r = +0.01 and +0.06, respectively). Fat thus accounted for approximately 90% of the overall variance in body weight among LH, control, and VMH animals. Consideration of only the LH data, however, revealed a breakdown of this close covariance of body fat and weight. Fat mass correlated significantly with body weight in LH rats maintaining weight 0-12% below normal; but, at maintained body weights below 88%, the correlation between weight and fat in LH rats was only +0.07. Variation in lean body mass then better accounted for differences in body weight. The implications of these observations for existing lipostatic theories of weight regulation are discussed.


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