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. 2014 Mar 14;9(3):e91806. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0091806

Figure 3. Differences in lipid metabolite levels in human blood samples between males and females.

Figure 3

Lipid metabolites with marked fold changes (female/male >1.5 or <0.67) and p<0.01 values between males and females in either plasma or serum are plotted for young (A) and elderly (B) age groups. Statistical significance was determined by Mann-Whitney U-test (*p<0.05, **p<0.01, ***p<0.001). SM, sphingomyelin; Cer, ceramide; PC, phosphatidylcholine; PE, phosphatidylethanolamine; ChE, cholesteryl ester; TG, triacylglycerol; HETE; hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid; diHETE, dihydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid.