Table 1.

Phosphatidylcholine (PC) and phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) fatty acid composition in sham and overloaded plantaris muscles (n = 6 per group)

	PC		PE
	Sham	OVL	Sham	OVL
14:0	3.5 ± 0.88	2.7 ± 0.4	3.7 ± 0.9	2.9 ± 0.8
16:0	33.5 ± 3.8	31.2 ± 2.5	19.1 ± 4.6	22.1 ± 3.5
17:0	3.9 ± 0.8	3.5 ± 0.6	5.7 ± 1.1	4.6 ± 0.8
18:0	11.9 ± 2.9	11.8 ± 1.0	18.9 ± 4.2	24.6 ± 4.3
14:1	4.3 ± 1.7	2.1 ± 0.8	2.0 ± 0.3	2.0 ± 0.4
16:1	5.0 ± 0.8	4.9 ± 0.4	4.0 ± 0.8	3.8 ± 1.1
17:1	2.8 ± 0.6	4.7 ± 0.9*	6.2 ± 1.3	4.6 ± 1.5
18:1	5.0 ± 0.8	7.9 ± 0.8*	7.1 ± 1.0	8.4 ± 1.6
18:2n6	5.0 ± 0.9	6.3 ± 0.8	2.2 ± 0.4	2.6 ± 0.5
20:2n6	1.7 ± 0.7	2.3 ± 1.2	3.6 ± 1.8	1.85 ± 0.7
20:3n3	4.3 ± 1.0	5.0 ± 0.9	1.9 ± 0.7	2.1 ± 0.6
20:5n3	0.3 ± 0.2	0.3 ± 0.1	0.2 ± 0.1	0.6 ± 0.3
22:6n3	4.4 ± 1.3	3.5 ± 0.7	5.4 ± 1.7	4.3 ± 1.5
SFA	57.7 ± 4.5	56.6 ± 2.9	56.2 ± 5.7	60.8 ± 5.7
MUFA	22.6 ± 3.9	22.4 ± 1.6	26.6 ± 3.9	22.3 ± 3.6
PUFA	19.6 ± 3.3	21.0 ± 2.7	17.1 ± 2.9	16.9 ± 3.0
n3	9.7 ± 2.3	9.2 ± 1.6	8.1 ± 2.4	7.5 ± 2.2
n6	8.3 ± 1.2	10.5 ± 1.7	7.6 ± 1.9	8.2 ± 1.7
MUFA:PUFA	1.4 ± 0.4	1.2 ± 0.2	1.7 ± 0.2	1.4 ± 0.3
ACL	17.1 ± 0.2	17.3 ± 0.1*	17.3 ± 0.2	17.4 ± 0.2

All values are means ± SE. *Significantly different from sham p ≤ 0.05. SFA, saturated fatty acids; MUFA, monounsaturated fats; PUFA, polyunsaturated fats; ACL, average chain length, which is calculated as Σ(m_i x c_i), where m_i is the molar concentration and c_i is the number of carbon atoms

The units listed are in percent mole fraction