Persistent diet-induced obesity in male C57BL/6 mice resulting from temporary obesigenic diets.

Does diet-induced obesity persist after an obesigenic diet is removed? We investigated this question by providing male C57BL/6 mice with free access to two different obesigenic diets followed by a switch to chow to determine if obesity was reversible.Male C57BL/6 mice were randomly assigned to five...

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Main Authors: Juen Guo, William Jou, Oksana Gavrilova, Kevin D Hall
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2670508?pdf=render