. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jan 1.

Published in final edited form as: Prostaglandins Leukot Essent Fatty Acids. 2011 Nov 1;86(1-2):71–77. doi: 10.1016/j.plefa.2011.10.003

Table 2.

Liver fatty acid composition

Fatty Acid¹	CON (n=10)	DEF (n=10)	REP (n=10)	P-value²
C14:0	0.46 ± 0.03	1.63 ± 0.07 ^***	0.38 ± 0.01 ^###	P<0.0001
C16:0	18.33 ± 0.24	22.67 ± 0.84 ^***	18.20 ± 0.21 ^###	P<0.0001
C18:0	18.09 ± 0.37	15.50 ± 0.52 ^***	18.32 ± 0.29 ^###	P<0.0001
Total SFA	36.88 ± 0.20	39.80 ± 0.62 ^***	36.91 ± 0.18 ^###	P<0.0001
16:1n-7	1.01 ± 0.10	4.71 ± 0.41 ^***	1.00 ± 0.07 ^###	P<0.0001
18:1n-9	7.14 ± 0.25	15.01 ± 1.18 ^***	7.06 ± 0.29 ^###	P<0.0001
18:1n-7	3.06 ± 0.14	4.66 ± 0.24 ^***	2.67 ± 0.05 ^###	P<0.0001
Total MUFA	11.21 ± 0.42	24.38 ± 1.44 ^***	10.72 ± 0.36 ^###	P<0.0001
18:2n-6	18.07 ± 0.78	7.30 ± 0.60 ^***	18.60 ± 0.37 ^###	P<0.0001
18:3n-6	0.21 ± 0.01	0.17 ± 0.02	0.20 ± 0.01	P=0.17
20:3n-6	0.71 ± 0.04	0.61 ± 0.05	0.68 ± 0.02	P=0.21
20:4n-6	23.11 ± 0.51	20.19 ± 1.14 ^*	22.96 ± 0.39 ^#	P=0.017
22:4n-6	0.41 ± 0.03	0.48 ± 0.04	0.46 ± 0.02	P=0.25
22:5n-6	0.19 ± 0.02	4.70 ± 0.23 ^***	0.22 ± 0.02 ^###	P<0.0001
Total n-6	43.08 ± 0.52	33.76 ± 1.84 ^***	43.49 ± 0.46 ^###	P<0.0001
18:3n-3	0.54 ± 0.05	nd ^***	0.61 ± 0.02 ^###	P<0.0001
20:5n-3	0.29 ± 0.02	nd ^***	0.29 ± 0.01 ^###	P<0.0001
22:5n-3	0.93 ± 0.03	nd ^***	0.95 ± 0.02 ^###	P<0.0001
22:6n-3	6.63 ± 0.36	0.47 ± 0.03 ^***	6.80 ± 0.21 ^###	P<0.0001
Total n-3	8.39 ± 0.28	0.47 ± 0.03 ^***	8.65 ± 0.21 ^###	P<0.0001

Data are mean fatty acid wt % of total fatty acids ± SEM (nd = not detected)

One-way ANOVA (2-tailed),

P ≤ 0.05,

^***

P ≤ 0.001 versus CON,

P ≤ 0.05,

^###

P ≤ 0.001 versus DEF.