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 7

Fatty acid compositions of the plasma and blood cell membrane of pups, on days 8 and 21 after birth, nursed by dams fed the soybean oil or shortening diet.

(a)

Days after birth	8
Group	Plasma		Blood cell membrane
	SOD	SHD	SOD	SHD
𝑛	9	10	9	10
Saturated	45.1 ± 3.46^a	40.0 ± 2.12^b	40.3 ± 1.90^b	39.4 ± 1.74^b
Monounsaturated	11.6 ± 1.98^c	26.0 ± 2.54^a	17.0 ± 2.93^b	26.0 ± 2.72^a
18:1 trans	n.d.^c	7.18 ± 1.20^a	n.d.^c	5.82 ± 1.00^b
Polyunsaturated
n-6	39.8 ± 1.31^a	24.8 ± 3.21^b	36.1 ± 3.24^a	24.7 ± 3.85^b
n-3	3.33 ± 0.86^b	1.85 ± 0.57^c	5.15 ± 1.29^a	2.72 ± 0.91^bc
n-6/n-3	12.0	13.4	7.01	9.08
Unknown	0.17	0.17	1.45	2.36

(b)

Days after birth	21
Group	Plasma		Blood cell membrane
	SOD	SHD	SOD	SHD
𝑛	10	10	10	10
Saturated	31.9 ± 1.72^b	30.5 ± 9.65^b	39.1 ± 3.48^a	36.9 ± 2.66^a
Monounsaturated	13.1 ± 1.39^c	29.1 ± 2.83^a	17.5 ± 1.71^b	28.1 ± 1.64^a
18:1 trans	n.d.^c	14.1 ± 1.80^a	n.d.^c	8.62 ± 1.46^b
Polyunsaturated
n-6	50.9 ± 1.12^a	22.5 ± 2.66^c	38.6 ± 3.62^b	24.4 ± 3.43^c
n-3	3.35 ± 0.83^b	0.97 ± 0.50^c	4.74 ± 0.96^a	1.73 ± 0.31^c
n-6/n-3	47.6	28.5	8.14	14.1
Unknown	2.56	2.83	0.06	0.25

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