Contrastingly to the observation made 24 h upon infection when amarked increase in the frequency of IFN-γ-producing NK and NK Tcells was observed in all adipose tissue depots analysed, by 7 and 21 days thisincrease was slight and limited only to SAT in 7-day infected animals (Figs 5a,b and 6a,b). Here, IFNG is linked to infection.