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During the first months after birth, rapid changes are taking place in adipose tissue: 1, multiplication of fat cells; 2, enlargement of fat cells; 3, change in the fatty acid composition of triglyceride, the predominantly saturated fatty acids of the fetus being replaced by unsaturated. Some or all of these changes are influenced by the infant's diet, which may thus be responsible for long-term consequences (obesity, possibly atheroma); hence the importance of the subject.
These changes have been followed in a series of term and preterm infants by examining biopsy and post mortem samples of adipose tissue, using
(a) microscopy for measuring cell size and number,
(b) chromatography for fatty acid composition.
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Gairdner, D. CHEMICAL AND CELLULAR DEVELOPMENT OF ADIPOSE TISSUE AFTER BIRTH. Pediatr Res 8, 131 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1203/00006450-197402000-00030
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