Table 6.

Concentrations of polyunsaturated fatty acids in liver phospholipids of rat pups culled at day 2, according to the maternal diet (control or high-fat) and the gavage treatment during pregnancy [fish oil or control (water)].

	Maternal control diet		Maternal high-fat diet
	Control	Fish oil	Control	Fish oil
n	9	12	17	8
C16:0 (palmitic acid)	24.49 ± 1.06	24.41 ± 1.08	23.21 ± 0.58	24.13 ± 0.50
C16:1n-7 (palmitoleic acid)	1.32 ± 0.09	1.26 ± 0.07	0.70 ± 0.05††††	0.65 ± 0.05
C18:0 (stearic acid)	16.61 ± 1.04	16.19 ± 0.88	17.06 ± 0.61	15.53 ± 0.86
C18:1n-7 (cis-vaccenic acid)	1.87 ± 0.16	1.95 ± 0.11	1.61 ± 0.10	1.33 ± 0.08
C18:1n-9 (oleic acid)	9.67 ± 0.58	9.60 ± 0.48	10.47 ± 0.63	9.47 ± 1.00
C18:2n-6 (linoleic acid)	10.74 ± 0.40	10.45 ± 0.65	11.13 ± 0.35	11.39 ± 0.39
C18:3n-3 (α-linolenic acid)	0.23 ± 0.04	0.25 ± 0.03	0.19 ± 0.02	0.24 ± 0.02
C18:3n-6 (γ-linolenic acid)	0.44 ± 0.06	0.35 ± 0.03	0.36 ± 0.03	0.43 ± 0.048
C20:0 (arachidic acid)	0.62 ± 0.07	0.52 ± 0.06	0.60 ± 0.05	0.61 ± 0.06
C20:1n-9 (eicosenoic acid)	0.21 ± 0.03	0.28 ± 0.03	0.20 ± 0.01	0.26 ± 0.03
C20:2n-6 (eicosadienoic acid)	0.73 ± 0.05	0.72 ± 0.04	0.60 ± 0.03†	0.61 ± 0.06
C20:3n-6 (dihomo-γ-linolenic acid)	0.75 ± 0.09	0.71 ± 0.06	0.85 ± 0.06	0.81 ± 0.10
C20:4n-6 (arachidonic acid)	17.57 ± 0.97	18.57 ± 1.25	18.84 ± 0.76	18.42 ± 0.60
C20:5n-3 (eicosapentaenoic acid)	0.65 ± 0.07	0.66 ± 0.05	0.51 ± 0.04	0.68 ± 0.05**
C22:4n-6 (adrenic acid)	4.06 ± 0.57	3.56 ± 0.46	3.37 ± 0.29	4.21 ± 0.23
C22:5n-6 (n-6 docosapentaenoic acid)	1.46 ± 0.29	1.39 ± 0.16	1.27 ± 0.11	0.19 ± 0.13
C22:5n-3 (n-3 docosapentaenoic acid)	4.71 ± 0.31	5.03 ± 0.28	4.77 ± 0.27	5.82 ± 0.53
C22:6n-3 (docosahexaenoic acid)	3.87 ± 0.33	4.18 ± 0.44	4.29 ± 0.25	4.23 ± 0.36

Data are means ± standard errors. ^†p < 0.05 and ^††††p < 0.0001 for a maternal diet effect among the offspring of dams that received control gavage; **p < 0.01 for an effect of the gavage treatment between groups exposed to the same maternal diet.