Table 1.

Lipid Profiles in Tail and Peritoneal Macrophages from Wild-Type (WT) and fat-1 Mice

	Mean mol per 100 mol total fatty acids ± SEM
	Tail Snip		Peritoneal Macrophages
Fatty acid	WT	fat-1	WT	fat-1
18:2n-6	17.43 ± 0.8	15.87 ± 0.9	7.4 ± 0.4	10.26 ± 0.4
18:3n-3	0.05 ± 0.1	1.70 ± 0.1a	1.94 ± 0.1	2.12 ± 0.2
20:4n-6	5.16 ± 0.3	0.57 ± 0.2a	17.66 ± 1.2	14.31 ± 1.2
20:5n-3	0.05 ± 0.1	1.93 ± 0.2a	0 ± 0	1.68 ± 0.6a
22:4n-6	2.46 ± 0.2	0.32 ± 0.3a	4.27 ± 0.2	0.99 ± 0.2a
22:5n-6	3.32 ± 0.2	0.06 ± 0.1a	3.00 ± 0.2	0.58 ± 0.3a
22:5n-3	0.05 ± 0.02	3.04 ± 0.21a	0 ± 0	1.89 ± 0.47a
22:6n-3	0.01 ± 0.01	3.29 ± 0.26a	0 ± 0	1.52 ± 0.17a
n:6/n-3 ratio	28.24 ± 0.91	1.81 ± 0.15a	24.93 ± 1.65	4.25 ± 2.05

NOTE. Total lipids were extracted and analyzed by gas chromatography, as described in the Materials and Methods. Only selected major fatty acids (>1 mol %) are reported. SEM, standard error of the mean.

^aP<.05.