Antidepressant-Like Effect of Selected Egyptian Cultivars of Flaxseed Oil on a Rodent Model of Postpartum Depression

Table 1

Results of GC analysis of fatty acid methyl esters of different oil samples of flaxseeds and their percentage of oil yields.

Peak	Rt	Comp name	Relative percentage (area%)
			S1	S2	S3	S4	G9	G10
1	23.71	Palmitic acid methyl ester	5.98	6.47	1.97	6.16	6.44	6.16
2	24.72	Hexadecanoic acid, ethyl ester	1.1	—	5.56	—	—	—
3	28.47	Stearic methyl ester	5.19	4.95	1.76	5.64	4.65	4.95
4	29.07	Oleic acid methyl ester (9Z) ω-9	20.84	15.93	4.72	13.74	14.72	18.54
5	29.25	9-Octadecanoic acid methyl ester (9E)	—	1.01	3.47	—	0.97	—
6	29.90	Ethyl oleate (9Z) ω-9	1.28	0.76	9.38	1.57	0.48	—
7	30.36	10,13-Octadecadienoic acid methyl ester (10E, 13E)	11.19	12.70	3.8	13.45	12.96	11.87
8	31.17	Linoleic ethyl ester (9Z, 12Z) ω-6	1.11	0.96	10.52	1.63	0.74	—
9	32.04	α-Linolenic acid methyl ester (9Z, 12Z, 15Z) ω-3	46.70	51.31	13.47	50.85	53.88	51.74
10	32.69	Linolenic acid ethyl ester ω-3	6.61	5.92	45.35	6.96	5.16	6.74
Oil yield (%)			35.8	42.50	33.2	35.1	40.74	34.8

, retention time in min. S1: Sahka 1, S2: Sakha 2, S3: Sakha 3, S4: Sakha 4, G9: Giza 9, and G10: Giza 10.