Chronic ethanol consumption disrupts whole-body lipid metabolism. Here we tested the
hypothesis that regulation of triglyceride homeostasis in adipose tissue is vulnerable to long-
term ethanol exposure. After chronic ethanol feeding, total body fat content as well as the
quantity of epididymal adipose tissue of male Wistar rats was decreased compared with pair-
fed controls. Integrated rates of in vivo triglyceride turnover in epididymal adipose tissue
were measured using 2 H 2 O as a tracer. Triglyceride turnover in adipose tissue was …