Timing of first appearance and subsequent distribution of adipose tissue were assessed in 488 normal-for-age human fetuses. The sample represented each of the three trimesters of normal pregnancies. Light microscopy showed that adipose tissue first appears and progressively develops from the 14th to 24th week of gestation (100-216 mm crown-rump length) in those areas where it characteristically...

CONTEXT The mesenteric fat is drained by the portal system, being related to the metabolic syndrome which is an impor-tant risk factor for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). OBJECTIVES Graduate of visceral fat thickness and correlate with the NAFLD degree through ultrasonography method. METHODS We studied 352 subjects for age, gender, measures of subcutaneous fat thickness and visce...

A joint growth-carcass model using random regression was used to estimate the (co)variance components of beef cattle body weights and carcass quality traits and correlations between them. During a four-year period (1994-1997) of the Australian "southern crossbreeding project", mature Hereford cows (N = 581) were mated to 97 sires of Jersey, Wagyu, Angus, Hereford, South Devon, Limousin, and Bel...

Our aim was to evaluate the association between gestational diabetes mellitus and sonographically measured fetal epicardial fat thickness between 24-28 weeks' gestation. This was a cross-sectional study that included 40 pregnancies with gestational diabetes mellitus, matched with 40 normal pregnancies with similar maternal age, body-mass index, gestational age, fetal gender, and fetal abdominal...

Genetic evaluations of US dairy goats are calculated annually by USDA from records that are available through Dairy Herd Improvement programs and the American Dairy Goat Association (ADGA). The number of does in test plans used in genetic evaluations was 11,273 during 1999; participation in linear appraisal programs during 1999 was 3784 does, a decrease from the mean of 4285 does over the last ...

Direct additive, dominance and genetic parameters for ultrasound scan traits of a multi-breed population involving European, British, Sanga and Brahman breed types were estimated. A generalized ridge regression technique was used to eliminate high associations among some of the genetic effects in the model. Clear breed type effects were observed for all scanned traits. European breeds had negat...

Anatomically distinct adipose tissues represent variable risks to metabolic health in man and some other mammals. Quantitative-imaging of internal adipose depots is problematic in large animals and associations between regional adiposity and health are poorly understood. This study aimed to develop and test a semi-quantitative system (EQUIFAT) which could be applied to regional adipose tissues....

Plasma insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-I) concentration taken post weaning from 1240 Bos Taurus beef cattle were used to estimate the heritability of the trait and to investigate its genetic relationship with various growth and carcase traits. IGF-I had a heritability estimate of 32% and was positively genetically correlated with various measures of carcase fatness, both on the live animal (s...

background: obesity is a worldwide health problem which is associated with a lot of complications. one of these comorbidities is the metabolic syndrome that is in correlation with abdominal fat thickness and waist circumference. various methods were used to reduce abdominal fat thickness such as liposuction. a noninvasive method is the topical agent. in this study, we investigated the effective...