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 8

Fatty acid composition of brains of pups, on days 8 and 21 after birth, nursed by dams fed the soybean oil or shortening diet.

Days after birth	8		21		82
Group	SOD	SHD	SOD	SHD	SOD	SHD
𝑛	9	10	10	10	10	10
Brain (g/100 g BW)	4.35 ± 0.40^a	4.20 ± 0.28^a	2.48 ± 0.29^b	2.29 ± 0.27^b	0.62 ± 0.16^c	0.55 ± 0.14^c
Total fat (mg/g brain)	12.9 ± 3.11^c	15.1 ± 5.16^c	34.0 ± 8.09^b	34.3 ± 4.12^b	65.3 ± 10.2^a	65.2 ± 4.09^a
Saturated	53.3 ± 3.06^a	52.0 ± 1.23^ab	49.1 ± 1.62^b	54.1 ± 2.61^a	45.3 ± 2.08^c	45.5 ± 0.39^c
Monounsaturated	17.5 ± 2.05^d	19.7 ± 0.98^c	20.3 ± 0.81^bc	21.9 ± 1.24^b	30.0 ± 0.72^a	29.2 ± 0.95^a
18:1 trans	n.d.^b	0.56 ± 0.24^a	n.d.^b	n.d.^b	n.d.^b	n.d.^b
Polyunsaturated
n-6	16.9 ± 2.83^a	18.6 ± 0.65^a	17.4 ± 0.98^a	15.7 ± 2.77^ab	11.8 ± 1.06^c	13.7 ± 1.16^b
n-3	12.3 ± 0.38^a	8.52 ± 0.47^b	12.3 ± 0.38^a	8.18 ± 1.15^b	11.4 ± 0.76^a	11.4 ± 0.62^a
n-6/n-3	1.34	2.18	1.41	1.92	1.04	1.20
Unknown	0.00	0.62	0.90	0.12	1.50	0.20

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