. 2017 Nov 22;59(1):123–136. doi: 10.1194/jlr.M080309

TABLE 4.

Effect of pregnancy and postpartum on the fatty acid composition of liver PC

Fatty Acid	Baseline	15 Days of Pregnancy	20 Days of Pregnancy	7 days Postpartum
	weight % of total fatty acids
14:0	0.45 ± 0.17	0.49 ± 0.26	0.49 ± 0.13	0.4 ± 0.09
16:0	17.59 ± 0.58^a	17.40 ± 0.99^a	26.3 ± 1.22^b	17.19 ± 1.00^a
18:0	28.95 ± 1.17^b	28.71 ± 1.26^b	19.67 ± 1.42^a	28.06 ± 0.77^b
20:0	0.08 ± 0.02	0.08 ± 0.02	0.07 ± 0.02	0.06 ± 0.01
22:0	0.09 ± 0.05	0.07 ± 0.04	0.08 ± 0.04	0.05 ± 0.02
24:0	0.08 ± 0.05	0.09 ± 0.07	0.11 ± 0.02	0.10 ± 0.03
∑SFAs	48.98 ± 2.39	47.37 ± 1.24	47.47 ± 0.76	46.95 ± 1.36
14:1	0.01 ± 0.01	0.02 ± 0.02	0.02 ± 0.01	0.01 ± 0.01
16:1	0.27 ± 0.03	0.43 ± 0.13	0.36 ± 0.11	0.32 ± 0.07
18:1n-7	1.35 ± 0.08^ab	1.27 ± 0.12^ab	1.14 ± 0.09^a	1.49 ± 0.17^b
18:1n-9	4.86 ± 1.24	5.05 ± 0.87	6.14 ± 1.05	6.72 ± 1.16
20:1n-9	0.10 ± 0.03^ab	0.08 ± 0.03^a	0.07 ± 0.01^a	0.14 ± 0.03^b
22:1n-9	0.22 ± 0.10^b	0.17 ± 0.10^ab	0.14 ± 0.08^ab	0.09 ± 0.03^a
24:1n-9	0.13 ± 0.08	0.13 ± 0.11	0.08 ± 0.03	0.06 ± 0.02
∑MUFAs	7.33 ± 1.09	7.18 ± 1.15	7.96 ± 1.18	8.87 ± 1.19
18:2n-6	10.78 ± 0.86^b	10.37 ± 0.89^ab	8.39 ± 0.60^a	11.06 ± 1.18^ab
18:3n-6	0.25 ± 0.03^a	0.35 ± 0.08^a	0.31 ± 0.04^a	0.61 ± 0.12^b
20:2n-6	0.17 ± 0.04	0.17 ± 0.02	0.19 ± 0.02	0.21 ± 0.02
20:3n-6	0.33 ± 0.05^b	0.29 ± 0.05^ab	0.16 ± 0.01^a	0.61 ± 0.08^c
20:4n-6	25.34 ± 1.59^b	24.39 ± 1.42^b	16.61 ± 1.06^a	22.24 ± 1.08^b
22:2n-6	0.05 ± 0.02	0.08 ± 0.08	0.05 ± 0.01	0.04 ± 0.01
22:4n-6	0.20 ± 0.05^a	0.20 ± 0.07^a	0.55 ± 0.04^b	0.23 ± 0.05^a
22:5n-6	0.17 ± 0.03^a	0.27 ± 0.15^a	3.00 ± 0.40^b	0.89 ± 0.23^a
∑n-6 PUFAs	37.30 ± 1.97^b	36.13 ± 1.69^b	29.26 ± 1.60^a	35.88 ± 1.53^b
18:3n-3	0.10 ± 0.01	0.12 ± 0.04	0.14 ± 0.01	0.10 ± 0.02
20:3n-3	0.03 ± 0.02	0.02 ± 0.02	0.05 ± 0.02	0.01 ± 0.01
20:5n-3	0.17 ± 0.04	0.19 ± 0.04	0.15 ± 0.03	0.23 ± 0.03
22:5n-3	0.53 ± 0.11^a	0.67 ± 0.11^a	1.06 ± 0.11^b	1.10 ± 0.11^b
22:6n-3	5.98 ± 10.01^a	7.51 ± 1.23^a	13.31 ± 1.40^b	6.07 ± 0.23^a
∑n-3 PUFAs	6.82 ± 1.04^a	8.52 ± 1.28^b	14.71 ± 1.33^c	7.52 ± 0.23^ab
∑PUFAs	43.11 ± 1.67	44.65 ± 2.28	43.98 ± 1.54	43.39 ± 1.64
Total fatty acids (mg/g)	11.14 ± 1.84	12.46 ± 1.82	11.68 ± 4.98	14.72 ± 5.54

Values are expressed as mean ± SD, n = 6 for each group. Fatty acids with different superscripts are significantly different by Tukey’s post hoc test (P < 0.05) following significant F-value by one-way ANOVA. SFAs, saturated fatty acids.