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

TABLE 5.

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

Fatty Acid	Baseline	15 Days of Pregnancy	20 Days of Pregnancy	7 Days Postpartum
	weight % of total fatty acids
14:0	0.75 ± 0.32^ab	0.63 ± 0.20^ab	0.92 ± 0.28^b	0.43 ± 0.13^a
16:0	15.56 ± 1.62^a	15.67 ± 2.02^a	20.27 ± 0.81^b	15.45 ± 0.41^a
18:0	29.70 ± 2.31^b	31.22 ± 3.54^b	23.20 ± 1.13^a	27.75 ± 0.77^b
20:0	0.14 ± 0.04^b	0.10 ± 0.02^ab	0.14 ± 0.03^b	0.05 ± 0.01^a
22:0	0.12 ± 0.03^ab	0.13 ± 0.08^ab	0.17 ± 0.07^b	0.06 ± 0.02^a
24:0	0.13 ± 0.05	0.13 ± 0.07	0.19 ± 0.06	0.14 ± 0.03
∑SFAs	47.68 ± 0.89^b	48.47 ± 1.31^b	46.77 ± 1.53^ab	45.11 ± 0.45^a
14:1	0.03 ± 0.01	0.03 ± 0.02	0.06 ± 0.03	0.02 ± 0.01
16:1	0.13 ± 0.02^a	0.46 ± 0.35^ab	0.86 ± 0.49^b	0.29 ± 0.09^a
18:1n-7	1.02 ± 0.11^ab	0.84 ± 0.11^ab	0.73 ± 0.15^a	1.05 ± 0.14^b
18:1n-9	6.65 ± 2.58	3.94 ± 1.02	9.26 ± 3.64	6.83 ± 1.55
20:1n-9	0.12 ± 0.05	0.07 ± 0.03	0.09 ± 0.02	0.12 ± 0.02
22:1n-9	0.40 ± 0.10^b	0.34 ± 0.12^b	0.40 ± 0.11^b	0.15 ± 0.05^a
24:1n-9	0.20 ± 0.09	0.17 ± 0.13	0.16 ± 0.06	0.10 ± 0.02
∑MUFAs	8.53 ± 2.69	5.89 ± 1.57	11.58 ± 3.85	8.58 ± 1.68
18:2n-6	5.98 ± 1.07^b	4.48 ± 0.24^ab	2.86 ± 0.42^a	5.64 ± 0.97^b
18:3n-6	0.16 ± 0.04^a	0.14 ± 0.06^a	0.09 ± 0.03^a	0.28 ± 0.03^b
20:2n-6	0.12 ± 0.04	0.13 ± 0.03	0.13 ± 0.03	0.16 ± 0.02
20:3n-6	0.29 ± 0.03^b	0.29 ± 0.06^b	0.12 ± 0.03^a	0.58 ± 0.10^c
20:4n-6	21.57 ± 3.21^b	23.31 ± 3.07^b	13.24 ± 1.20^a	21.27 ± 1.58^b
22:2n-6	0.10 ± 0.05^ab	0.13 ± 0.07^b	0.09 ± 0.04^ab	0.04 ± 0.01^a
22:4n-6	0.54 ± 0.09^a	0.56 ± 0.12^a	1.07 ± 0.11^b	0.68 ± 0.08^a
22:5n-6	0.25 ± 0.06^a	0.44 ± 0.25^ab	3.95 ± 0.71^c	1.42 ± 0.39^b
∑n-6 PUFAs	29.01 ± 3.29^b	29.48 ± 2.81^b	21.54 ± 1.66^a	30.09 ± 2.18^b
18:3n-3	0.21 ± 0.10	0.13 ± 0.03	0.16 ± 0.05	0.09 ± 0.03
20:3n-3	0.05 ± 0.02^ab	0.07 ± 0.05^ab	0.11 ± 0.04^b	0.02 ± 0.01^a
20:5n-3	0.24 ± 0.07^ab	0.25 ± 0.05^ab	0.11 ± 0.02^a	0.37 ± 0.09^b
22:5n-3	1.09 ± 0.26^a	1.27 ± 0.19^a	1.27 ± 0.19^a	2.20 ± 0.23^b
22:6n-3	11.22 ± 2.16^a	13.77 ± 2.35^ab	17.46 ± 1.82^b	12.47 ± 1.07^a
∑n-3 PUFAs	12.81 ± 1.92^a	15.49 ± 2.44^ab	19.11 ± 1.88^b	15.14 ± 1.33^a
∑PUFAs	41.82 ± 3.33	44.97 ± 1.31	40.65 ± 3.40	45.22 ± 1.99
Total fatty acids (mg/g)	3.52 ± 0.52	5.02 ± 0.91	3.74 ± 1.75	5.82 ± 3.39

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.