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The utilization of 14C‐1‐acetate was studied in isolated epididymal adipose tissue of adult mice with the American variety of the obese‐hyperglycemic syndrome. A lower lipogenesis from acetate was found in these animals compared with their lean littermates. In both types of mice there was a tendency for decreased acetate conversion with increasing age. The considerable higher number of fat cells per unit wet weight in the lean littermates was not accompanied by any increase of the tissue nitrogen. The results obtained emphasize the value of also relating biochemical data to the number of fat cells in a given amount of tissue.
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Hellman et al. (1962) studied this question.
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