Table 5

Carcass composition, absolute and relative weight of white adipose tissue retroperitoneal (RET) and perirenal (PERI) of adult rats maintained with control (CC and LC) or soybean flour (CS or LS) or low protein (LL) diets after weaning

Groups

Variable

CC

(8)

CS

(8)

LC

(7)

LS

(7)

LL

(7)

g

Carcass fresh

318 ± 42

300 ± 27

199 ± 16^a

159 ± 186^b

80 ± 29^c

Protein

76 ± 5

70 ± 17

50 ± 36^a

38 ± 4^b

17 ± 6^c

Lipid

45 ± 10

36 ± 14

19 ± 86^a

11 ± 3^b

8 ± 5^b

RET

9.93 ± 1.38

7.16 ± 1.57

3.90 ± 1.756^a

2.18 ± 0.56^b

1.22 ± 1.10^b

PERI

3.80 ± 0.73^A

2.46 ± 0.49^AB

1.37 ± 0.60^Ca

0.90 ± 0.36^Cab

0.43 ± 0.32^b

g/100 g of carcass weight

Protein

24.2 ± 2.9

23.1 ± 5.1

25.0 ± 0.7^a

24.0 ± 0.4^b

21.9 ± 0.9^c

Lipid

14.2 ± 3.0

12.0 ± 5.0

9.6 ± 3.3

6.9 ± 1.0

9.3 ± 3.8

g/100 g of body weight

RET

2.30 ± 0.23

1.78 ± 0.34

1.43 ± 0.54

0.98 ± 0.22

0.92 ± 0.61

PERI

0.87 ± 0.13

0.61 ± 0.10

0.50 ± 0.20

0.40 ± 0.13

0.34 ± 0.15

Values are means ± SD for the numbers of rats in parentheses. Means with different superscript capital letters are significantly different by two-way ANOVA and with superscript minuscule letters are significantly different by one-way ANOVA followed by Tukey test (p < 0.05).

Cheim et al. Nutrition & Metabolism 2009 6:34   doi:10.1186/1743-7075-6-34