Research Article

Diet-Induced Swine Model with Obesity/Leptin Resistance for the Study of Metabolic Syndrome and Type 2 Diabetes

Figure 1

Changes in mean live weight (a), back-fat depth (b), and abdominal and thoracic circumferences ((c) and (d), resp.) over time after differential feeding in control sows (grey bars) and sows with ad libitum access to a diet enriched with saturated fat (black bars). Asterisks indicate significant differences.
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