Table 1.

Fatty acid compositions (wt %) in plasma of male Wistar rats ¹.

	Diets
	Control	11% PPC
SFAs	30.25 ± 0.69	29.07 ± 1.39
C10:0	0.01 ± 0.00	0.01 ± 0.00
C12:0	0.03 ± 0.00	0.03 ± 0.00
C14:0	0.65 ± 0.21	0.76 ± 0.12
C16:0	19.57 ± 1.18	19.91 ± 0.86
C18:0	8.58 ± 1.87	6.87 ± 0.95
C20:0	0.07 ± 0.01	0.05 ± 0.01 **
C22:0	0.10 ± 0.02	0.08 ± 0.01
MUFAs	26.69 ± 7.16	21.74 ± 2.91
C16:1n-7	3.09 ± 1.49	3.51 ± 1.27
C16:1n-9	0.36 ± 0.15	0.23 ± 0.04
C18:1n-7	3.51 ± 1.23	3.07 ± 0.54
C18:1n-9 (OA)	18.72 ± 4.32	13.94 ± 1.56 *
C20:1n-7	0.26 ± 0.09	0.24 ± 0.06
C20:1n-9	0.22 ±0.07	0.12 ± 0.03 **
C22:1n-7	0.04 ± 0.02	0.04 ± 0.01
C22:1n-9	0.01 ± 0.00	0.03 ±0.01 **
C24:1n-9	0.19 ± 0.06	0.21 ± 0.03
PUFAs	42.92 ± 8.20	49.08 ± 5.72
n-9 PUFAs	0.21 ± 0.03	0.09 ± 0.01 ***
C20:3n-9 (MA)	0.21 ± 0.03	0.09 ± 0.01 ***
n-6 PUFAs	38.10 ± 6.08	23.39 ± 2.51 ***
C18:2n-6 (LA)	18.97 ± 1.36	17.51 ± 1.84
C18:3n-6 (GLA)	0.28 ± 0.05	0.10 ± 0.01 ***
C20:3n-6 (DGLA)	0.79 ± 0.25	0.55 ± 0.04 *
C20:4n-6 (AA)	16.97 ± 5.51	4.90 ± 0.93 ***
C22:4n-6	0.44 ± 0.04	0.05 ± 0.01 ***
C22:5n-6 (DPA)	0.24 ± 0.05	0.06 ± 0.00 ***
n-3 PUFAs	4.62 ± 0.67	25.61 ± 1.75 ***
C18:3n-3 (ALA)	0.76 ± 0.09	1.41 ± 0.14 ***
C18:4n-3	0.03 ± 0.01	0.51 ± 0.07 ***
C20:4n-3	0.10 ± 0.01	0.54 ± 0.14 ***
C20:5n-3 (EPA)	0.54 ± 0.12	12.72 ± 1.41 ***
C21:5n-3 (HPA)	0.01 ± 0.00	0.28 ± 0.06 ***
C22:5n-3 (DPA)	0.62 ± 0.07	2.98 ± 0.41 ***
C22:6n-3 (DHA)	2.56 ± 0.53	7.17 ± 0.64 ***

¹ Data were analyzed with t-test (n = 6), and are presented as means ± SD of wt % (g fatty acids/100 g total fatty acids). Values significantly different from control are indicated (* p ≤ 0.05, ** p ≤ 0.01, *** p ≤ 0.001).

Abbrevations: AA, arachidonic acid; ALA, alpha linolenic acid; DGLA, dihomo-gamma-linolenic acid; DHA, docosahexaenoic acid; DPA, docopentaenoic acid; EPA, eicosapentaenoic acid; GLA, gamma-linolenic acid; HPA, heneicosapentaenoic acid; LA, linoleic acid; MA, meads acid; OA, oleic acid; PPC, phospholipid-protein complex.