Oksanen A, Osborne H G
Acta Vet Scand. 1972;13(3):340-7. doi: 10.1186/BF03547052.
The kidney fat was histologically examined of 27 spontaneously dead lambs of which 14 had starved. The lambs were born with mature fat, but in young animals a starvation period of more than 24 hrs. reduced the fat tissues and changed its cells towards the embryonal type built up of preadipocytes. These cells were smaller than the mature fat cells. Nucleus was large, round and situated in the centre of the cell. The slight eosinophilic, strongly diminished cytoplasm was some granulated and had some small fat droplets. The starvation changes of fat cells did not depend on the weight of animals or on the age of lambs less than two weeks.
对27只自然死亡的羔羊的肾脂肪进行了组织学检查，其中14只曾处于饥饿状态。这些羔羊出生时脂肪已成熟，但对于幼龄动物而言，超过24小时的饥饿期会使脂肪组织减少，并使其细胞向由前脂肪细胞构成的胚胎型转变。这些细胞比成熟脂肪细胞小。细胞核大、呈圆形且位于细胞中央。轻度嗜酸性、明显减少的细胞质有些许颗粒，并含有一些小脂滴。脂肪细胞的饥饿变化并不取决于动物的体重或两周龄以下羔羊的年龄。
