Table 1.

GC-Ms analysis of fatty acid profile in the liver tissues of mice (the data are mean ± SEM, expressed as % of an individual fatty acid to the total fatty acids).

Fatty acid (%)	Control diet	LA-rich diet	P value
C14:0	0.7 ± 0.0	0.7 ± 0.0	0.78
C16:0	26.6 ± 0.4	27.7 ± 0.4	0.09
C16:1 n7	5.1 ± 0.2	4.5 ± 0.2	0.08
C18:0	4.4 ± 0.3	4.2 ± 0.3	0.71
C18:1 n9	40.8 ± 1.0	36.0 ± 1.2	0.02
C18:1 n7	6.3 ± 0.2	4.8 ± 0.2	< 0.01
C18:2 n6	5.8 ± 0.6	11.7 ± 0.7	< 0.01
C18:3 n3	0.1 ± 0.0	0.1 ± 0.0	0.63
C20:3 n6	0.6 ± 0.1	0.8 ± 0.1	0.17
C20:4 n6	3.4 ± 0.4	3.2 ± 0.4	0.76
C20:5 n3	0.4 ± 0.0	0.5 ± 0.1	0.52
C22:6 n3	0.6 ± 0.1	0.5 ± 0.2	0.47
others	5.3 ± 0.3	5.4 ± 0.2	0.99
n-6-to-n-3 ratio	8.9 ± 0.7	14.2 ± 0.9	0.01