Figure 3: Organ-specific partitioning of dietary fatty acids.
From: Dietary fatty acid metabolism of brown adipose tissue in cold-acclimated men
Fractional (a) and net (b) DFA uptake rate in cervical subcutaneous white adipose tissue, skeletal muscles and BAT between 140 and 170 min after oral ingestion of 18FTHA (n=7). BAT radio-density by CT during cold exposure (c). Biodistribution of 18FTHA following whole-body PET scans per volume of tissue (d) and organ-specific contribution to whole-body DFA clearance (e). Anterioposterior whole-body PET acquisition performed 200 min after oral ingestion of 18FTHA pre- and post-acclimation (f). Data are reported as the mean with 95% CI, n=8 (except where indicated). ****P<0.0001, ***P<0.001 versus BAT, †††P<0.001, †P<0.05 versus 60 min, #P<0.05 versus pre-acclimation, repeated measures two-way ANOVA with Bonferonni post hoc test. White arrows show thoracic duct, brown arrows show supraclavicular BAT, red arrows show myocardium, green arrows show liver and yellow arrows show intestines. Scale bar, 10 cm.
