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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Aug 3.
Published in final edited form as: J Lipid Res. 2008 May 1;49(8):1735–1745. doi: 10.1194/jlr.M800093-JLR200

TABLE 4.

Radioactivity of esterified fatty acids in heart total lipids

Fatty Acid Percent Total Esterified Fatty Acid
Radioactivity in Heart
Adequate Deficient
18:3n-3 97.9 ± 0.3 97.8 ± 0.3
18:4n-3 ND ND
20:4n-3 0.40 ± 0.10 0.40 ± 0.07
20:5n-3 0.65 ± 0.12 0.67 ± 0.10
22:5n-3 0.28 ± 0.04 0.31 ± 0.04
24:5n-3 ND ND
24:6n-3 ND ND
22:6n-3 ND ND
20:3n-3 0.31 ± 0.07 0.30 ± 0.03
Unknown 0.47 ± 0.13 0.48 ± 0.13

Values are means ± SD (n = 4 and 3 for diet-adequate and diet-deficient groups, respectively). Detection level was > 0.1% of the applied radioactivity. ND, not detected.