Table 3.
Ratio of free fatty acids in blood serum of dairy cows under hyperthermia conditions (HYP) and in the control group (CON).
| Indicator | HYP | CON |
p-Value between Groups |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| μg/μL | % of Total Fatty Acids | μg/μL | % of Total Fatty Acids | ||
| Free fatty acids (FFA) | 17.749 | 100.0 | 11.946 | 100.0 | 0.2447 |
| Σ saturated fatty acids (SFA) | 12.490 | 70.37 | 10.158 | 85.03 | 0.2291 |
| Σ unsaturated fatty acids (UFA) | 5.259 | 29.63 | 1.788 | 14.97 | 0.1105 |
| Σ monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFA) | 0.931 | 5.25 | 0.399 | 3.34 | 0.0059 |
| Σ polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) | 4.328 | 24.38 | 1.389 | 11.63 | 0.1559 |
| including, Σ n-3 PUFA |
0.037 | 0.2 | 0.073 | 0.6 | 0.1381 |
| Σ n-6 PUFA | 2.894 | 16.3 | 0.146 | 1.2 | 0.2354 |
| UFA/SFA ratio | 0.42 | 0.18 | 0.0525 | ||
| n-6/n-3 PUFA ratio | 78.2 | 2.0 | 0.1663 | ||