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Table 1.

PUFA composition of total cellular lipids from the control cardiomyocytes and the transgenic cells expressing a C. elegans fat-1 cDNA

Mol % of total fatty acids	Control	fat-1
n−6 Polyunsaturates
18:2n−6	14.2^a	9.2^b
20:2n−6	1.2^a	0.3^b
20:3n−6	1.6^a	0.4^b
20:4n−6	15.2^a	4.1^b
22:4n−6	4.4^a	1.0^b
22:5n−6	0.2^a	0.0^b
Total	36.8^a	15.0^b
n−3 Polyunsaturates
18:3n−3	0.2^b	3.6^a
20:4n−3	0.0^b	0.6^a
20:5n−3	0.1^b	6.1^a
22:5n−3	1.2^b	5.8^a
22:6n−3	1.0^a	1.3^a
Total	2.5^b	17.4^a
n−6/n−3 ratio	14.7^a	0.9^b

Values are means of four measurements. Values for each fatty acid with the same letter do not differ significantly (P < 0.01) between control and fat-1.