Table 5.

Fatty acid composition (% of total) in Corpus Striatum and Midbrain membrane phospholipids of F2 generation groups raised on Control or Experimental diets.

Fatty acid	Corpus Striatum		Midbrain
	Control diet	Experimental diet	Control diet	Experimental diet
C16	17.99 ± 1.04	21.74 ± 0.74	16.51 ± 1.90	24.09 ± 0.27*
C16:1	0.73 ± 0.10	0.73 ± 0.12	0.64 ± 0.04	0.85 ± 0.03
C17	Nd	nd	0.16 ± 0.00	0.20 ± 0.02
C18	25.74 ± 0.25	25.20 ± 0.51	24.88 ± 0.67	29.09 ± 0.37*
C18:1n9	17.07 ± 0.34	15.18 ± 0.69	16.38 ± 0.25	19.21 ± 0.21*
C18:2n6t	nd	nd	0.74 ± 0.17	0.65 ± 0.22
C20:1	nd	nd	0.62 ± 0.10	0.60 ± 0.05
C20:4n6 (AA)	14.08 ± 0.27	13.12 ± 0.34	13.74 ± 0.83	14.93 ± 0.48
C23	3.88 ± 0.13	3.46 ± 0.18	3.98 ± 0.20	3.52 ± 0.19
C22:5n6	1.54 ± 0.06	9.60 ± 0.26**	1.49 ± 0.11	9.39 ± 0.31**
C22:6n3 (DHA)	19.23 ± 0.88	9.48 ± 0.84**	19.70 ± 0.69	8.70 ± 0.73**

Values are expressed as means ± SD.

^*p < 0.01

^**p < 0.001

nd, not detected.