Table 3.

Fatty acid composition of brain choline glycerophospholipids from Aldh5a1^+/+ and Aldh5a1^−/− mice

ChoGpl mole %	Aldh5a1+/+		Aldh5a1−/−
FAME	Mean		SD
16:0	51.2	1.3	51.5	0.7
16:1	0.9	0.1	0.9	0.1
18:0	10.7	0.5	10.6	0.3
18:1 n-9	17.1	0.2	16.7	0.1*
18:1 n-7	5.1	0.2	5.0	0.1
18:2 n-6	1.3	0.5	1.2	0.1
20:1 n-9	0.6	0.1	0.6	0.1
20:3 n-6	0.4	0.0	0.5	0.1*
20:4 n-6	9.0	0.6	8.5	0.3
22:4 n-6	0.6	0.1	0.7	0.1
22:6 n-3	3.3	0.4	3.9	0.3*
sat	61.9	1.0	62.1	0.6
unsat	38.1	1.0	37.9	0.6
MUFA	23.6	0.3	23.2	0.1
PUFA	14.4	1.0	14.6	0.4
n-3	3.3	0.4	3.9	0.3*
n-6	11.1	0.9	10.8	0.2
n-3/n6	0.30	0.05	0.36	0.03*
unsat/sat	0.62	0.03	0.61	0.01
PUFA/MUFA	0.61	0.05	0.63	0.02
MUFA/sat	0.38	0.01	0.37	0.01
PUFA/sat	0.23	0.02	0.24	0.01

Values are expressed as mole percentage and represent mean ± SD, n = 5–7. The * indicates a significant difference between groups, p<0.05.