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Short-day-like body weight changes do not prevent fat pad compensation after lipectomy in Siberian hamsters

M. M. Mauer and T. J. Bartness
Department of Biology, Georgia State University, Atlanta 30303, USA.

Long-day (LD)-housed Siberian hamsters show compensatory increases in white adipose tissue (WAT) weight after lipectomy, whereas hamsters exposed to short days (SDs) for a long duration (22 wk) do not. We tested whether SD-induced body weight changes prevent fat pad compensation after lipectomy. In experiment 1, hamsters with lesions of the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus (PVNx) rapidly increased body weight similarly to 22-wk SD-exposed hamsters. In experiment 2, LD-housed hamsters were food restricted for 22 wk and then pair fed with SD-housed hamsters for 12 wk to produce body weight changes mimicking those of ad libitum-fed SD-exposed animals. Epididymal WAT (EWAT) lipectomy (EWATx) of PVNx or food-restricted hamsters elicited compensatory increases in retroperitoneal and inguinal WAT (RWAT and IWAT) weights. Unlike other fat pads, EWAT was less affected by food restriction or PVNx than by SD exposure. In general, food restriction decreased adipocyte number, whereas SD exposure decreased adipocyte size. PVNx increased RWAT adipocyte size and IWAT adipocyte number. These results suggest that the lack of body fat compensation by EWATx hamsters exposed to SDs for a long duration is due to SD-associated responses other than body weight changes per se.

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