. 2015 Feb 26;14:14. doi: 10.1186/s12944-015-0012-7

Table 1.

Offspring liver fatty acid composition

			Fatty acid abundance (mol %)
Fatty acids in liver lipids		RD	SFA	ALA	DHA	EPA
Saturated fatty acids
14:00	Myrisitic acid	1.0 ± 0.1	0.8 ± 0.07	0.8 ± 0.08	0.6 ± 0.07	0.7 ± 0.06
16:00	Palmitic acid	21.4 ± 1.9	19.6 ± 1.8	20.6 ± 1.8	19.4 ± 1.6	19.9 ± 2.0
18:00	Stearic acid	17.7 ± 1.1	22.4 ± 2.0	19.4 ± 2.1	18.6 ± 1.8	21.6 ± 1.8
Total SFAs		40.2 ± 2.9	42.8 ± 3.9	40.9 ± 2.5	38.7 ± 3.4	42.3 ± 3.9
Monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFA)
16:1ω-7	Palmitoleic acid	0.4 ± 0.05	0.7 ± 0.08	0.5 ± 0.06	0.5 ± 0.06	0.7 ± 0.08
18:1 ω -9	Oleic acid	9.2 ± 0.9	10.1 ± 1.1	7.1 ± 0.8	6.3 ± 0.5	7.6 ± 0.8
Total MUFA		9.6 ± 0.9	10.9 ± 0.9	7.7 ± 0.7	6.8 ± 0.5	8.3 ± 0.7
Polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA)
18:2 ω6	Linoleic	27.4 ± 1.9^a	15.4 ± 1.4^b	17.0 ± 1.5^b	13.6 ± 1.4^b	14.8 ± 1.5^b
18:3 ω6	γ- Linolenic acid	0.4 ± 0.05^a	0.1 ± 0.01^b	0.1 ± 0.01^b	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0
20:4 ω6	Arachidonic acid	11.3 ± 1.3^a	16.5 ± 1.5^b	12.2 ± 1.1^a	9.5 ± 0.8^c	8.2 ± 0.8^c
Total n-6 PUFA		39.2 ± 3.9^a	32.2 ± 3.2^a	29.4 ± 2.9^a,b	23.3 ± 2.3^b	23.0 ± 2.2^b
18:3 ω3	α-Linolenic acid	1.1 ± 0.1^a	0.1 ± 0.01^b	1.7 ± 0.2^a	0.1 ± 0.01^b	0.2 ± 0.02^b
20:5 ω3	Eicosapentenoic acid	0.4 ± 0.03	0.4 ± 0.04	3.1 ± 0.03	2.1 ± 0.2	7.1 ± 0.5
22:6 ω3	Docosahexenoic acid	9.3 ± 0.9	13.3 ± 1.2	16.9 ± 1.7	28.7 ± 2.5	18.7 ± 1.9
Total ω n-3 PUFA		10.9 ± 1.1^a	13.9 ± 1.2^a	21.9 ± 2.2^b	31.0 ± 3.1^c	26.1 ± 2.5^c
Total PUFA		50.1 ± 4.9	46.2 ± 4.6	51.3 ± 4.8	54.3 ± 4.9	49.2 ± ±4.7

Fatty acids are expressed as mole %. Fatty acids changed among the different maternal dietary treatments appear in bold. Means (n = 7) without a common letter (a, b or c) difference p < 0.05 between the maternal dietary treatments indicated in the x-axis, as described in Methods.