TABLE 5.

VLC-PUFAs composition from pooled RPE/choroid collected from young, middle and old age and age-matched AMD human donors

			Peak Area Value Normalized with IS and Sample Weightd
Peak no.a	RT (min)b	FAsc	Young Age Group	Middle Age Group	Old Age Group	Age-Matched AMD Group
1	23.27	24:5n-6	78.04	97.41	83.09	62.80
2	23.43	24:6n-3	147.30	376.30	259.11	66.48
3	23.58	24:4n-6	321.66	522.54	365.28	148.77
4	23.74	24:5n-3	161.86	465.52	266.57	96.15
5	27.55	26:5n-6	2.44	3.88	3.01	1.78
6	27.72	26:6n-3	6.63	12.73	6.23	1.68
7	28.00	26:4n-6	16.08	18.22	17.68	5.59
8	28.22	26:5n-3	9.11	21.72	14.83	5.02
9	33.61	28:6n-3	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
10	33.95	28:4n-6	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
11	34.42	28:5n-3	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
12	40.82	30:6n-3	0.00	0.37	0.00	0.00
13	41.42	30:4n-6	0.00	0.50	0.00	0.00
14	41.82	30:5n-3	0.00	0.70	0.00	0.00
15	48.84	32:5n-6	0.13	1.62	0.48	0.00
16	49.32	32:6n-3	0.78	8.12	2.23	0.00
17	50.00	32:4n-6	0.80	8.89	2.69	0.00
18	50.46	32:5n-3	0.54	6.52	1.94	0.00
19	58.49	34:6n-3	0.00	5.03	0.60	0.00
20	59.21	34:4n-6	0.00	4.58	0.46	0.00
21	59.72	34:5n-3	0.00	11.14	1.42	0.00
Ratio of n-6/n-3 VLC-PUFAs			1.28	0.72	0.85	1.29
Sum of all VLC-PUFAs			745.37	1565.79	1025.62	388.27

^aPeak no. was shown in chromatograms of Fig. 2.

^bRetention time.

^cNumber of carbon atoms: number of double bonds: position of double bonds, the position of first double bound.

^dAverage = peak area in pooled sample/n; young age group: n = 5, middle age group: n = 6, old age group: n = 5, age-matched AMD group: n = 8. No statistics are provided due to only one pooled sample in each group.