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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Pharmacol Res. 2009 Sep 22;61(1):27–33. doi: 10.1016/j.phrs.2009.09.003

Table 1.

Jejunal levels of fatty acids in wild-type and CD36-null mice during the dark phase (11:30 pm) and the light phase (11:30 am).

Dark phase Light phase

+/+ -/- +/+ -/-
ω-9 series
18:1 (nmol/g) 20.17 ± 2.18 14.91 ± 1.01*** 15.07 ± 2.06# 15.13 ± 1.62
22:1 (pmol/g) 594.28 ± 89.72 585.99 ± 179.69 505.75 ± 111.86 734.42 ± 181.62
24:1 (pmol/g) 399.9 ± 49.72 287.5 ± 87.32 318.2 ± 71.55 370.9 ± 44.71
ω-6 series
18:2 (nmol/g) 18.90 ± 2.58 15.89 ± 1.33 12.71 ± 1.34# 14.25 ± 1.29
18:3 (nmol/g) 3.44 ± 0.42 2.48 ± 0.22 1.55 ± 0.23### 1.99 ± 0.24
20:4 (nmol/g) 4.41 ± 0.27 5.58 ± 0.72 4.31 ± 0.24 5.77 ± 0.91
Σ ω-6 (nmol/g) 24.98 ± 2.34 21.46 ± 1.95 17.02 ± 1.47 20.02 ± 1.20
ω-3 series
16:1 (pmol/g) 2.31 ± 0.18 2.06 ± 0.44 2.20 ± 0.511 3.51 ± 0.59
20:5 (pmol/g) 1391.35 ± 140.48 1032.78 ± 85.66 733.22 ± 52.70### 857.73 ± 139.40
22:5 (pmol/g) 45.48 ± 5.41 52.46 ± 10.01 44.26 ± 5.78 66.52 ± 9.16
22:6 (nmol/g) 2.52 ± 0.19 2.65 ± 0.35 2.52 ± 0.19 3.21 ± 0.29
Σ ω-3 (nmol/g) 51.71 ± 5.74 58.21 ± 10.81 49.71 ± 6.34 73.39 ± 9.80
Saturated
C16:0 (nmol/g) 11.28 ± 0.89 9.71 ± 0.83 10.44 ± 0.96 10.37 ± 0.91
C18:0 (nmol/g) 11.66 ± 0.83 9.36 ± 0.75* 10.24 ± 0.26 9.36 ± 0.61
Σ saturated (nmol/g) 23.21 ± 1.56 19.07 ± 1.49 20.68 ± 0.97 19.73 ± 1.38
Ratios
16:1/16:0 5.08 ± 0.43 5.12 ± 0.65 5.40 ± 0.70 3.41 ± 0.60
18:1/18:0 1.83 ± 0.12 1.60 ± 0.07 1.48 ± 0.21 1.64 ± 0.20
18:2/18:3 6.01 ± 0.18 6.42 ± 0.19 8.46 ± 0.45 7.34 ± 0.47
20:4/22:6 1.77 ± 0.10 2.13 ± 0.16 1.72 ± 0.07 1.77 ± 0.19
22:1/24:1 1.47 ± 0.11 1.58 ± 0.31 1.60 ± 0.06 1.51 ± 0.06
ω-6/ω-3 0.49 ± 0.03 0.40 ± 0.05 0.36 ± 0.03 0.28 ± 0.02

Data are expressed as mean ± S.E.M of n = 4-5. +/+: wild-type; -/-: CD36-null mice. ω-9 series: 18:1, oleic acid; 22:1, erucic acid and 24:1, nervonic acid; ω-6 series: 18:2, linoleic acid; 18:3, linolenic acid and 20:4, arachidonic acid. ω-3 series: 16:1, palmitoleic acid; 20:5, eicosapentaenoic acid; 22:5, docosapentaenoic acid and 22:6, docosahexaenoic acid; Saturated: C16:0, palmitic acid and C18:0, stearic acid.

*

P < 0.05 and

***

P < 0.005 vs. wild-type within the same phase of the light/dark cycle;

#

P < 0.05 and

###

P < 0.005 vs. dark phase within the same genotype (Two-way ANOVA followed by SNK).