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Published in final edited form as: Lipids. 2009 Jul 9;44(8):685–702. doi: 10.1007/s11745-009-3318-2

Table 4.

Retina fatty acid composition of the two artificially reared groups and a dam-reared reference group at 20 week of age (wt % of total fatty acids)

	Dietary group

	Dam-reared (n = 16)	n-3 Adq (n = 14)	n-3 Def (n = 14)
Fatty acids
10:0	0.13 ± 0.02^a	0.26 ± 0.06^ab	0.36 ± 0.03^b
12:0	0.052 ± 0.005^a	0.10 ± 0.01^b	0.09 ± 0.01^ab
14:0	1.14 ± 0.06^a	1.30 ± 0.07^a	0.46 ± 0.02^b
16:0	19.78 ± 0.35^a	20.72 ± 0.50^a	18.44 ± 0.15^b
18:0	17.11 ± 0.37	17.08 ± 0.40	18.01 ± 0.28
20:0	0.23 ± 0.01^ab	0.25 ± 0.01^a	0.21 ± 0.01^b
22:0	0.16 ± 0.01^a	0.19 ± 0.02^a	0.12 ± 0.01^b
24:0	0.13 ± 0.01^a	0.14 ± 0.02^a	0.23 ± 0.01^b
Total saturates	38.72 ± 0.62^ab	40.05 ± 0.63^a	37.92 ± 0.21^b
12:1	0.25 ± 0.09	0.18 ± 0.06	0.18 ± 0.05
14:1	0.27 ± 0.06	0.65 ± 0.20	0.67 ± 0.08
16:1n7	0.69 ± 0.06^ab	0.89 ± 0.10^a	0.55 ± 0.06^b
18:1n7	1.54 ± 0.06^a	1.71 ± 0.06^a	1.97 ± 0.05^b
18:1n9	10.51 ± 0.59	11.39 ± 0.57	9.76 ± 0.38
20:1n9	0.64 ± 0.06^a	0.50 ± 0.06^ab	0.36 ± 0.03^b
22:1n9	0.03 ± 0.01	0.04 ± 0.01	0.027 ± 0.002
24:1n9	0.20 ± 0.02	0.27 ± 0.04	0.21 ± 0.02
Total monounsaturates	14.14 ± 0.66	15.64 ± 0.75	13.73 ± 0.47
18:2n6	0.69 ± 0.03^a	0.84 ± 0.07^b	0.45 ± 0.02^c
18:3n6	0.022 ± 0.001^a	0.07 ± 0.03^b	0.048 ± 0.003^ab
20:2n6	0.10 ± 0.01	0.16 ± 0.05	0.13 ± 0.01
20:3n6	0.38 ± 0.01^a	0.37 ± 0.02^a	0.26 ± 0.02^b
20:4n6	7.17 ± 0.21^a	7.93 ± 0.21^b	9.86 ± 0.15^c
22:2n6	0.025 ± 0.003^a	0.04 ± 0.01^ab	0.05 ± 0.01^b
22:4n6	0.84 ± 0.04^a	0.96 ± 0.03^a	2.44 ± 0.10^b
22:5n6	0.11 ± 0.01^a	0.13 ± 0.01^a	5.72 ± 0.66^b
Total n-6 PUFA	9.33 ± 0.24^a	10.50 ± 0.21^a	18.96 ± 0.79^b
18:3n3	0.018 ± 0.003^a	0.033 ± 0.004^b	0.046 ± 0.004^c
20:3n3	0.025 ± 0.003	0.028 ± 0.004	0.03 ± 0.01
20:5n3	0.47 ± 0.03^a	0.39 ± 0.03^b	0.017 ± 0.002^c
22:5n3	0.67 ± 0.02^a	0.63 ± 0.03^a	0.27 ± 0.02^b
22:6n3	18.91 ± 1.41^a	18.31 ± 1.58^a	12.95 ± 0.78^b
Total n-3 PUFA	20.09 ± 1.39^a	19.38 ± 1.57^a	13.32 ± 0.78^b
16:1n7/16:0	0.03 ± 0.003	0.04 ± 0.005	0.03 ± 0.003
18:1n9/18:0	0.62 ± 0.04^ab	0.67 ± 0.04^a	0.55 ± 0.03^b
20:4n6/20:3n6	19.23 ± 0.79^a	21.84 ± 1.05^a	40.49 ± 3.48^b
20:4n6/20:5n3	15.99 ± 1.04^a	21.55 ± 1.32^a	661.14 ± 64.04^b
20:4n6/22:6n3	0.41 ± 0.03^a	0.48 ± 0.04^a	0.81 ± 0.06^b
20:5n3/22:6n3	0.03 ± 0.003^a	0.02 ± 0.003^a	0.001 ± 0.0002^b
22:5n6/22:6n3	0.007 ± 0.001^a	0.008 ± 0.001^a	0.43 ± 0.03^b
22:5n6+22:6n3	19.02 ± 1.41	18.44 ± 1.58	18.66 ± 1.39
n-6/n-3	0.46 ± 0.03^a	0.54 ± 0.05^a	1.42 ± 0.05^b
n-6+n-3	29.42 ± 1.42	29.89 ± 1.54	32.28 ± 1.50
Total fatty acids (μg/mg wet retina)	23.72 ± 2.13^b	19.63 ± 1.76^b	36.78 ± 4.02^a

Each parameter is presented as the mean (± SEM). Means with different alphabetical superscripts (a, b, c) indicate significant differences across diets by Tukey's HSD at P < 0.05