Table 2.

Hippocampus fatty acid composition in control, high-cholesterol diet fed rats, and in animals treated with Dill and basil extract

	C	HCD	HCD+Dill	HCD+basil
C14:0	0.80 ± 0.08	2.30 ± 0.84	2.46 ± 0.72	2.45 ± 0.78
C16:0	22.35 ± 1.73	20.32 ± 1.65	21.52 ± 0.95	21.34 ± 3.10
C18:0	24.93 ± 1.98	21.90 ± 1.44	19.80 ± 1.54	18.98 ± 2.51
C18:1n-9	6.25 ± 1.85	7.99 ± 1.73	10.71 ± 1.33	8.39 ± 2.19
C18:2 (LA)	7.95 ± 1.04	9.68 ± 1.41	7.64 ± 0.78	6.40 ± 0.88
C22:0	6.57 ± 1.75	6.76 ± 1.78	3.45 ± 2.05	5.58 ± 1.86
C22:1	1.39 ± 0.30	1.75 ± 0.49	2.16 ± 1.09	1.83 ± 0.45
C20:4 (5,8,11,14)	6.47 ± 1.99	3.30 ± 1.43	6.90 ± 2.16	4.86 ± 3.88
C22:6 (DHA)	4.05 ± 1.97	5.36 ± 1.89	8.42 ± 0.02	4.24 ± 1.51
Total SFA	52.83 ± 4.33	48.83 ± 3.62	45.67 ± 3.12	45.17 ± 5.06
Total MUFA	6.83 ± 1.66	7.50 ± 1.60	12.17 ± 1.85	9.00 ± 1.82
Total n-6 PUFA	12.60 ± 1.17	14.17 ± 1.62	12.67 ± 1.58	9.17 ± 1.44
Total n-3 PUFA	4.07 ± 1.97	5.36 ± 1.89	8.34 ± 0.09	4.24 ± 1.51
Total PUFA	15.31 ± 2.51	17.74 ± 2.57	19.62 ± 2.31	13.40 ± 1.39
Total UFA	22.15 ± 9.47	25.24 ± 8.80	31.78 ± 8.37	22.40 ± 7.22
n-6:n:3 PUFA Ratio	6.30 ± 2.72	16.07 ± 13.68	1.56 ± 0.23	7.48 ± 3.46
UFA:SFA Ratio	0.47 ± 0.13	0.55 ± 0.10	0.72 ± 0.09	0.56 ± 0.11
PUFA:SFA Ratio	0.32 ± 0.08	0.38 ± 0.07	0.44 ± 0.05	0.32 ± 0.05

HCD: high-cholesterol diet