Table 3.

Total triglyceride, long-chain diacylglycerol, ceramide, and long-chain or very long-chain fatty acyl-CoA levels in liver and skeletal muscle from control, safflower-fed, and fish oil-fed rats

	Control	Safflower	Fish Oil
Liver
Triglyceride, mg/g	2.58±0.16	20.20±1.64c	7.87±0.64b,f
Diacylglycerol, nmol/g	28.51±2.15	63.80±5.63	30.06±2.23f
Ceramide, nmol/g	359.21±12.96	327.80±11.36	354.28±13.95
LC/VLC fatty acyl-CoA, nmol/g	166.08±10.54	179.36±14.51	143.75±8.25
Skeletal muscle
Triglyceride, mg/g	0.38±0.04	0.69±0.12b	0.36±0.02d
Diacylglycerol, nmol/g	67.94±5.24	58.56±7.26	47.49±3.12a
Ceramide, nmol/g	157.28±14.65	122.09±8.54	106.15±6.03
LC/VLC fatty acyl-CoA, nmol/g	12.35±1.48	20.83±3.10a	10.81±1.56e

Values are means ± SE for 10 rats/group, expressed as shown for measures per wet wt. LC, long chain; VLC, very long chain.

^aP < 0.0135,

^bP = 0.005,

^cP = 0.0001 vs. control;

^dP = 0.01,

^eP = 0.007,

^fP = 0.0001 vs. safflower.