Effects of Intake of Maternal Dietary Elaidic Acids during Pregnancy and Lactation on the Fatty Acid Composition of Plasma, Erythrocyte Membrane, and Brain in Rat Pups

Table 6

Plasma lipid concentration of pups nursed by dams fed the soybean oil or shortening diet.

Days after birth	𝑛	Triacylglycerol (mg/dL)		Total cholesterol (mg/dL)
		SOD	SHD	SOD	SHD
8	19	116.3 ± 28.6^a	131.3 ± 42.6^a	91.4 ± 25.1^abc	108.2 ± 15.2^ab
21	10	122.3 ± 15.2^a	95.2 ± 7.34^a	121.7 ± 15.5^a	95.9 ± 7.47^b
47♂	5	89.8 ± 26.1^ab	68.5 ± 7.09^b	60.5 ± 8.55^bc	46.4 ± 8.89^c
47♀	5	82.2 ± 30.8^ab	56.6 ± 14.3^b	63.3 ± 11.4^c	50.0 ± 15.9^c
68♂	5	75.2 ± 13.8^b	52.6 ± 11.7^b	58.6 ± 11.1^c	55.5 ± 9.18^c
68♀	5	56.1 ± 12.8^b	58.6 ± 10.1^b	57.0 ± 15.3^c	59.4 ± 15.7^c
82♂	5	84.5 ± 12.2^b	81.7 ± 26.4^ab	67.7 ± 15.8^bc	81.5 ± 12.3^bc
82♀	5	65.9 ± 6.88^b	94.2 ± 32.0^ab	54.8 ± 13.2^c	67.6 ± 13.2^bc

Values are means ± SD. Values not sharing common superscript letters are significantly different at 𝑃<0.05.