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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biochim Biophys Acta. 2011 Nov 30;1821(9):1235–1243. doi: 10.1016/j.bbalip.2011.11.002

Table 5.

Fatty acyl-CoA concentrations and radioactivity in brain from n-3 PUFA adequate and deficient rats following 5 min of [1-14C]DPA infusion

Acyl-CoA Concentration (nmol/g brain) Radioactivity (nCi/g brain)
Adequate Deficient Adequate Deficient
14:0-CoA, 18:3n-3-CoA, EPA-CoA 0.80 ± 0.17 0.70 ± 0.17
16:0-CoA 9.6 ± 1.8 9.0 ± 2.7
18:0-CoA 3.6 ± 0.9 3.6 ± 2.7
18:1-CoA 10.7 ± 2.7 10.2 ± 3.1
18:2n-6-CoA 0.52 ± 0.09 0.42 ± 0.13
20:4n-6-CoA 0.81 ± 0.19 1.1 ± 0.2
DPA(22:5n-6)-CoA 0.060 ± 0.012 0.73 ± 0.26*** 0.92 ± 0.23 1.00 ± 0.45
DHA(22:6n-3)-CoA 0.88 ± 0.14 0.25 ± 0.08***

Values are mean ± SD (n = 8 for both groups).

**

p < 0.01,

***

p < 0.001 differs significantly from mean in adequate group.