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. 2021 Jul 22;151(10):3053–3066. doi: 10.1093/jn/nxab235

TABLE 6.

Effects of flaxseed-oil and fish-oil supplementation on monocyte bioenergetics parameters in women with obesity1

Supplementation with flaxseed oil Supplementation with DHA-rich fish oil Pr > F for type 3 fixed effect
D0 D28 D0 D28 Day Suppl. Day*Suppl
Unstimulated
 Basal resp, pmol/min 80.8 ± 22.8 59.7 ± 24.52 65.6 ± 19.4 62.3 ± 15.4 0.022 0.439 0.048
 Proton leak, pmol/min 8.89 ± 12.2 5.47 ± 8.3 5.78 ± 6.2 6.98 ± 7.3 0.238 0.830 0.080
 Maximum resp, pmol/min 152 ± 44.4 144 ± 31.8 147 ± 45.1 125 ± 22.8 0.129 0.244 0.471
 SRC, pmol/min 71.0 ± 33.4 83.8 ± 30.1 80.8 ± 37.5 62.4 ± 20.2 0.698 0.514 0.058
 Non mito ox, pmol/min 37.5 ± 21.1 39 ± 11.3 30.7 ± 6.6 36.3 ± 18 0.360 0.298 0.538
 ATP-linked OCR, pmol/min 74.0 ± 18.6 55.5 ± 19.92 60.0 ± 22.9 55.3 ± 18.3 0.018 0.422 0.057
 Coupling effic,3 pmol/min 0.948 ± 0.241 0.943 ± 0.124 0.889 ± 0.173 0.926 ± 0.211 0.280 0.546 0.579
 SRC,3,4 % 1.91 ± 0.42 2.63 ± 0.9752 2.26 ± 0.649 2.37 ± 1.13 0.029 0.992 0.028
 OCR,3 pmol/min 118 ± 33.2 98.8 ± 24.3 96.3 ± 21.6 98.6 ± 20.3 0.180 0.180 0.067
 ECAR, mpH/min 27.7 ± 14.5 36.5 ± 18.1 31.2 ± 15.9 29.1 ± 17.1 0.613 0.610 0.110
 OCR/ECAR ratio3 4.88 ± 1.75 3.33 ± 1.85 3.98 ± 2.24 4.21 ± 1.85 0.293 0.785 0.021
Change by LPS
 ΔBasal resp,5 pmol/min –26.4 ± 21.2 –2.08 ± 23.52 –8.68 ± 17.0 –19.6 ± 15.5 0.213 0.867 .0003
 ΔProton leak, pmol/min 1.96 ± 5.09 7.07 ± 5.88 5.65 ± 6.12 3.31 ± 5.66 0.395 0.984 0.030
 ΔMaximum resp, pmol/min –11.6 ± 23.9 20.2 ± 37.22 9.44 ± 25.1 5.05 ± 16.1 0.077 0.713 0.026
 ΔSRC, pmol/min 14.8 ± 30.9 22.3 ± 25.4 19.2 ± 30.1 24.7 ± 22.8 0.409 0.662 0.899
 ΔNon mito ox, pmol/min 11.1 ± 19.6 11.4 ± 16.0 4.92 ± 12.8 10.5 ± 21.1 0.472 0.530 0.488
 ΔATP-linked OCR, pmol/min –27.9 ± 18.9 –9.72 ± 21.32 –14.6 ± 19.6 –23.0 ± 16.5 0.459 0.796 0.001
 ΔCoupling efficiency,3 pmol/min –0.043 ± 0.163 –0.125 ± 0.150 –0.089 ± 0.166 –0.176 ± 0.229 0.082 0.347 0.942
 ΔSRC,3 % 0.875 ± 1.17 0.399 ± 0.725 0.701 ± 0.699 0.832 ± 1.167 0.557 0.581 0.221
 ΔOCR,5 pmol/min –15.3 ± 17.3 9.30 ± 23.12 –3.76 ± 21.1 –9.15 ± 21 0.071 0.525 0.003
 ΔECAR, mpH/min 23.3 ± 13.0 17.5 ± 11.1 13.6 ± 15.2 21.1 ± 13.9 0.692 0.518 0.048
 ΔOCR/ECAR ratio –2.86 ± 1.96 –1.37 ± 1.80 –1.44 ± 1.87 –2.32 ± 1.49 0.894 0.895 0.003
1

Concentrations are shown as means ± SDs; n = 12–15 for unstimulated and n = 10–14 for change by LPS. Differences of least square means and adjusted P values are in Supplemental Table 8. ECAR, extracellular acidification rate; mito, mitochondrial; OCR, oxygen consumption rate; ox, oxidation; resp, respiration; SRC, spare respiratory capacity.

2

Indicates difference (P < 0.05) from Day 0 of the same phase.

3

Log transformed for statistics.

4

One outlier removed.

5

Phase order effect (refer to Supplemental Table 1 for values separated by phase).