Table 4.

Fatty acid profile of mesenteric adipose tissue

	Treatment		Gender					P value
Fatty acid (%)1	Con	PF	HS	Boar	Gilt	SEM	Trt	Gender	Interaction
C12:0 (lauric acid)	0.09	0.10	0.09	0.10	0.09	0.01	0.922	0.548	0.211
C14:0 (myristic acid)	1.70	1.56	1.49	1.53	1.63	0.07	0.421	0.299	0.231
C16:0 (palmitic acid)	28.27	28.92	28.24	27.50	29.44	0.64	0.880	0.461	0.176
C16:1 (palmitoleic acid)	2.22	1.88	1.68	1.96	1.90	0.13	0.133	0.493	0.231
C18:0 (stearic acid)	12.47	12.15	11.88	12.12	12.28	0.63	0.848	0.367	0.667
C18:1n9t (elaidic acid)	0.24	0.27	0.24	0.25	0.25	0.02	0.862	0.735	0.654
C18:1n9c (oleic acid)	41.78	41.41	41.06	40.77	41.65	0.91	0.171	0.888	0.025
C18:2n6c (linoleic acid)	11.78	11.97	13.65	14.11	11.02	0.64	0.318	0.002	0.320
C18:3n3,9,12 α-linolenic (alpha linolenic acid)	0.43	0.54	0.59	0.50	0.56	0.02	0.194	0.875	0.671
C20:1n9 cis-11-eicosenoic acid (gadoleic acid)	0.79	0.81	0.74	0.71	0.87	0.04	0.720	0.031	0.972
C20:3n6 (dihomo-γ-linolenic acid)	0.13	0.27	0.23	0.24	0.19	0.04	0.352	0.856	0.107
C20:4n6 (arachidonic acid)	0.09	0.10	0.11	0.09	0.10	0.01	0.532	0.630	0.762
Total SFA	42.53	42.73	41.7	41.25	43.44	1.22	0.912	0.414	0.293
Total MUFA	45.03	44.37	43.72	43.69	44.67	1.72	0.884	0.529	0.238
Total PUFA	12.43	12.88	14.58	14.94	11.87	0.92	0.297	0.097	0.543
MUFA/SFA	1.06	1.04	1.05	1.06	1.03	0.06	0.895	0.896	0.226
PUFA/SFA	0.29	0.30	0.35	0.36	0.27	0.02	0.104	0.028	0.846

MUFA = monounsaturated fatty acid; PUFA = polyunsaturated fatty acid; SFA = saturated fatty acid.

¹Individual fatty acids are expressed as percentages of the total.