Lipids occupied about 50-60% of the necrotic adipose tissue, while it did about 90% in the normal one. Moisture occupied more than 30% of the necrotic adipose tissue, while it did less than 15% of the normal one. Crude nitrogen and crude ash of the former were 2-3 times as much as those of the latter. Ca, Mg, P, Na, and K increased, but the saponification value decreased in the necrotic tissue. No acid value exhibited big changes in this tissue.
More fat of high degree of saturation was accumulated in the necrotic than in the normal adipose tissue.
TG occupied more than 98% of the lipids in the adipose tissue, regardless of necrotic or normal condition, of cattle which died of adiponecrosis. In the necrotic adipose tissue, Chi increased a little, but FFA or PL showed no remarkable changes.
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