Structure of periadrenal brown fat in childhood in both expected and cot deaths.
A quantitative study was carried out of the fat cells of the hilar pannicle of the adrenal in 150 infants comprising 60 hospital deaths, 2 accidental deaths, and 88 cot deaths. The cells were rated in categories of fat vacuolation. For a period of up to 8 weeks after birth there is an apparent depletion in the number and size of overt fat vacuoles in the cell and from this time on there is a progressive change to monolocular fat cells. The postnatal discharge of fat from the cell in the pannicle seems to be reduced in some children presenting as unexpectec death in infancy.
D002001:Adipose Tissue, Brown / Q000473:pathology*; D000293:Adolescent; D000311:Adrenal Glands; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008055:Lipids; D013398:Sudden Infant Death / Q000473:pathology*; D014617:Vacuoles
D008055:Lipids