Table 3.

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

	Diets
	Control	11% PPC
SFAs	33.89 ± 0.86	29.31 ± 1.77 ***
C14:0	0.47 ± 0.11	0.62 ± 0.10 *
C16:0	18.42 ± 1.26	18.82 ± 0.91
C18:0	13.62 ± 1.91	8.47 ± 1.23 ***
C20:0	0.05 ± 0.00	0.04 ± 0.00 ***
C22:0	0.12 ± 0.02	0.07 ± 0.01 ***
MUFAs	20.06 ± 3.19	20.40 ± 1.71
C16:1n-7	2.39 ± 1.02	3.13 ± 0.85
C16:1n-9	0.25 ± 0.06	0.27 ± 0.04
C18:1n-7	4.08 ± 1.12	3.41 ± 0.69
C18:1n-9 (OA)	12.52 ± 1.64	12.81 ± 0.87
C20:1n-7	0.11 ± 0.02	0.14 ± 0.01 **
C20:1n-9	0.19 ± 0.03	0.12 ± 0.01 ***
C22:1n-7	0.01 ± 0.00	0.01 ± 0.00
C22:1n-9	0.05 ± 0.03	0.02 ± 0.00
C24:1n-9	0.17 ± 0.03	0.13 ± 0.02 *
PUFAs	45.91 ± 2.74	50.20 ± 1.30 *
n-9 PUFAs	0.17 ± 0.02	0.08 ± 0.00 ***
C20:3n-9 (MA)	0.17 ± 0.02	0.08 ± 0.00 ***
n-6 PUFAs	39.13 ± 2.74	22.13 ± 1.36 ***
C18:2n-6 (LA)	14.80 ± 1.87	15.72 ± 1.40
C18:3n-6 (GLA)	0.20 ± 0.03	0.09 ± 0.01 ***
C20:3n-6 (DGLA)	1.04 ± 0.38	0.71 ± 0.09
C20:4n-6 (AA)	21.96 ± 2.13	5.30 ± 0.91 ***
C22:4n-6	0.44 ± 0.06	0.07 ± 0.01 ***
C22:5n-6 (DPA)	0.29 ± 0.09	0.05 ± 0.01 ***
n-3 PUFAs	6.61 ± 0.61	27.98 ± 2.16 ***
C18:3n-3 (ALA)	0.42 ± 0.10	1.47 ± 0.29 ***
C18:4n-3	0.02 ± 0.01	0.26 ± 0.08 ***
C20:4n-3	0.09 ± 0.01	0.68 ± 0.18 ***
C20:5n-3 (EPA)	0.37 ± 0.05	10.82 ± 0.94 ***
C21:5n-3 (HPA)	0.00 ± 0.00	0.36 ± 0.07 ***
C22:5n-3 (DPA)	0.73 ± 0.09	4.54 ± 0.68 ***
C22:6n-3 (DHA)	4.98 ± 0.67	9.85 ± 0.97 ***

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