Quantification of abdominal fat depots in rats and mice during obesity and weight loss interventions.

BACKGROUND & AIMS:Obesity is a leading healthcare issue contributing to metabolic diseases. There is a great interest in non-invasive approaches for quantitating abdominal fat in obese animals and humans. In this work, we propose an automated method to distinguish and quantify subcutaneous and v...

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Main Authors: Bhanu Prakash Kn, Venkatesh Gopalan, Swee Shean Lee, S Sendhil Velan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4195648?pdf=render