Table 1.

Fatty acids (FA) composition of milk and plasma of dams and pups.

(%)	Dams’ Plasma	Milk	Pups’ Plasma
Total saturated	40.93 ± 0.27	63.88 ± 1.69	42.50 ± 0.44
8:0	-	2.06 ± 0.17	-
10:0	-	7.90 ± 0.42	0.72 ± 0.07
12:0	0.47 ± 0.03	9.53 ± 0.37	2.19 ± 0.13
14:0	0.59 ± 0.03	12.47 ± 0.57	3.95 ± 0.16
15:0	0.24 ± 0.01	0.14 ± 0.01	0.17 ± 0.01
16:0	21.18 ± 0.47	28.22 ± 0.89	24.62 ± 0.29
17:0	0.38 ± 0.01	0.15 ± 0.01	0.24 ± 0.01
18:0	17.27 ± 0.24	3.23 ± 0.06	10.12 ± 0.19
20:0	0.32 ± 0.01	0.12 ± 0.01	0.22 ± 0.01
22:0	0.47 ± 0.06	0.06 ± 0.01	0.27 ± 0.01
Total monounsaturated	15.35 ± 0.77	16.31 ± 1.21	10.73 ± 0.38
16:1 n-7	1.37 ± 0.12	1.11 ± 0.23	0.51 ± 0.02
18:1 n-7	1.24 ± 0.09	1.02 ± 0.16	0.96 ± 0.02
18:1 n-9	12.49 ± 0.70	13.69 ± 0.85	8.90 ± 0.37
20:1 n-9	0.28 ± 0.02	0.23 ± 0.03	0.36 ± 0.10
Total n-6 polyunsaturated	43.73 ± 0.84	18.39 ± 0.55	41.42 ± 0.41
18:2 n-6	21.10 ± 0.76	16.09 ± 0.40	20.67 ± 021
18:3 n-6	0.64 ± 0.06	0.34 ± 0.02	0.49 ± 0.02
20:2 n-6	0.30 ± 0.07	0.39 ± 0.07	0.30 ± 0.02
20:3 n-6	-	0.33 ± 0.03	1.09 ± 0.04
20:4 n-6	18.34 ± 0.89	0.93 ± 0.05	19.97 ± 0.43
22:4 n-6	-	0.24 ± 0.05	-
22:5 n-6	-	0.07 ± 0.01	-
Total n-3 polyunsaturated	3.35 ± 0.20	1.30 ± 0.05	3.26 ± 0.11
18:3 n-3	0.38 ± 0.06	0.90 ± 0.02	0.32 ± 0.02
20:3 n-3	1.34 ± 0.20	0.05 ± 0.01	-
20:5 n-3	0.52 ± 0.03	0.11 ± 0.01	0.16 ± 0.02
22:5 n-3	-	0.10 ± 0.02	-
22:6 n-3	1.11 ± 0.10	0.13 ± 0.01	2.78 ± 0.12
Ratio n-6/n-3	12.18 ± 0.58	14.14 ± 0.12	12.96 ± 0.37
Total polyunsaturated	43.73 ± 0.84	19.69 ± 0.59	45.77 ± 0.47

Results are expressed as mean percentage of total FA ± S.E.M. Results derived from n = 6 for dams and n = 24 for pups.