Table 6.

The fatty acid composition in the hepatic vein plasma of the dairy cows

μg /mL	Treatment
	LC	HC	SEM 1	P-Value 2
C12:0	3.57	4.04	0.20	0.26
C13:0	5.92	6.99	0.50	0.32
C14:0	66.06	74.32	13.66	0.79
C14:1	6.47	4.39c	0.57	0.06
C15:0	8.81	6.43	0.84	0.17
C15:1	1.39	1.25	0.09	0.49
C16:0	92.47	71.10a	5.14	<0.05
cis9C16:1	5.32	2.84c	0.64	0.05
C18:0	121.33	85.5a	8.81	<0.05
trans11C18:1n	2.92	2.93	0.09	0.96
C18:1n-9	62.24	40.28a	5.69	<0.05
C18:2n-6	277.99	71.13a	38.72	<0.05
C20:0	0.89	1.02a	0.03	<0.05
C20:1	0.45	0.61c	0.05	0.10
C18:3n-3	25.86	6.6b	3.74	<0.01
cis9, trans11C18:2n	4.56	4.57	0.07	0.98
C21:0	1.27	1.00	0.19	0.51
C22:0	0.97	1.31a	0.08	<0.05
C20:3n-6	27.01	10.80c	4.41	0.07
C22:1n-9	1.24	1.57a	0.08	<0.05
C20:4n-6	33.46	16.13b	3.84	<0.01
C22:6n-3	10.57	6.20ab	0.83	<0.001
Desaturation index
cis9 C16:1/C16:0	0.05	0.04c	0.01	0.09
cis9 C18:1/C18:0	0.51	0.47	0.02	0.37
cis9,trans11 C18:2/tran11 C18:1	1.66	1.55	0.06	0.37

¹SEM = Standard error of the mean between the two treatments.

²The data were compared using Student’s t-test.

^aindicates p < 0.05; ^bindicates p < 0.01; ^abindicates p < 0.001; ^cindicates 0.05 < p < 0.1.