Figure 5.
Impact of fat and inulin on the hepatic abundance of polyunsaturated fatty acids. Mice were fed low-fat diet (LFD) supplemented with cellulose (LFDc, black bars) or inulin (LFDi, hatched black bars), or high-fat diet (HFD) supplemented with cellulose (HFDc, green bars) or inulin (HFDi, hatched green bars) for 11 weeks. Percentages of (a) total polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs), (b) total omega-3 (n-3) PUFAs, (c) total omega-6 (n-6) PUFAs, (d) overall n-6 PUFAs/n-3 PUFAs ratio, (e) individual n-3 PUFAs, (f) individual n-6 PUFAs or (g) individual omega-9 (n-9) PUFA relative to total FAMEs. Data are presented as mean ± SEM (n = 12 for the LFDc and HFDc groups and n = 11 for the LFDi and HFDi groups). * p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01, *** p < 0.001 and **** p < 0.0001.