TABLE 5.

Calculated incorporation coefficients and influx rates of α-LNA into heart stable lipids, and conversion-incorporation coefficients into esterified elongated n-3 PUFA products, in diet-adequate and diet-deficient rats

Total Esterified	Radioactivity		$k_{i(\mathrm{\alpha }-\mathit{LNA})}^{\ast }$a or $k_{i(\mathrm{\alpha }-\mathit{LNA}\to j)}^{\ast }$b		Jin,i(α-LNA)
	Adequate	Deficient	Adequate	Deficient	Adequate	Deficient
	nCi/g heart		ml/s/g × 10−4		nmol/s/g × 10−4
18:3n-3	279 ± 66	297 ± 53	6.3 ± 1.8	6.0 ± 1.1	171 ± 57	6.2 ± 2.3a
20:4n-3	1.2 ± 0.3	1.2 ± 0.2	0.026 ± 0.007	0.024 ± 0.005
20:5n-3	1.8 ± 0.4	2.0 ± 0.4	0.042 ± 0.012	0.041 ± 0.008
22:5n-3	0.81 ± 0.19	0.95 ± 0.17	0.018 ± 0.005	0.019 ± 0.004
20:3n-3	0.88 ± 0.21	0.90 ± 0.16	0.020 ± 0.006	0.018 ± 0.003

Values are means ± SD (n = 10 and 7 for diet-adequate and -deficient groups, respectively).

^aP < 0.001, differs significantly from mean in adequate group.