TABLE 1.

Fatty acid composition of plasma lipids in dietary n-3 PUFA-adequate and -deficient rats

Fatty Acid	Unesterified Fatty Acid		Total Fatty Acid
	Adequate	Deprived	Adequate	Deprived
	nmol/ml plasma
14:0	57 ± 11	64 ± 7.6	111 ± 35	132 ± 39
16:0	459 ± 108	488 ± 60	1,677 ± 441	1,676 ± 571
16:1n-7	84 ± 25	95 ± 15	188 ± 78	235 ± 99
18:0	96 ± 20	95 ± 8.5	1,118 ± 125	1,069 ± 141
18:1n-9	240 ± 66	244 ± 36	688 ± 264	722 ± 333
18:1n-7	49 ± 12	56 ± 18	201 ± 62	230 ± 96
18:2n-6	259 ± 49	253 ± 36	1,102 ± 260	1,023 ± 368
18:3n-3	27 ± 6.0	1.0 ± 0.45c	51 ± 15	3.6 ± 1.2c
20:4n-6	25 ± 4.8	34 ± 5.9c	1,361 ± 204	1,597 ± 141b
20:5n-3	3.3 ± 1.1	ND	33 ± 11	ND
22:5n-6	ND	8.7 ± 1.2	ND	13 ± 38
22:5n-3	3.6 ± 1.3	ND	19 ± 3.1	ND
22:6n-3	6.5 ± 2.6	0.23 ± 0.10c	151 ± 35	14 ± 5.9c
Total	1,312 ± 292	1,338 ± 171	6,719 ± 1,439	6,899 ± 1,733
Total n-6	285 ± 53	295 ± 41	2,463 ± 388	2,756 ± 529
Total n-3	40.7 ± 9.7	1.3 ± 0.4c	246 ± 53	17 ± 5.1c
Total saturated	613 ± 134	647 ± 73	2,906 ± 585	2,877 ± 718
Total monounsaturated	374 ± 101	395 ± 61	1,077 ± 398	1,187 ± 527
18:3n-3a	53 ± 5.3	33 ± 8.4

Adapted from (23). Values are means ± SD (n = 10 and 7 for diet-adequate and diet-deficient groups, respectively). ND, not detected.

^aUnesterified 18:3n-3 concentration in plasma after 5 min of intravenous [1-¹⁴C]α-LNA.

^bP < 0.01, differs significantly from mean in diet-adequate group.

^cP < 0.001, differs significantly from mean in diet-adequate group.