Hypertrophy and/or Hyperplasia: Dynamics of Adipose Tissue Growth
Figure 4
Size and number increase of epididymal fat cells with respect to epididymal fat pad mass.
(A) and (B): the correlation between epididymal fat pad mass and volume-weighted mean cell size
is fitted with a power law
with (A)
and (B)
, which is plotted with solid lines. (C) and (D): the correlation between epididymal fat pad mass
and total cell number
is fitted into an exponential function
with initial fat pad mass
, initial cell number
, and cell-number increasing rate
, plotted with dashed lines (chow diet) and solid lines (high-fat diet). Fitted parameter values are summarized in Table 2.