Dietary (n-6 : n-3) Fatty Acids Alter Plasma and Tissue Fatty Acid Composition in Pregnant Sprague Dawley Rats

Table 3

Liver tissue fatty acid composition (mg/100 mL; Mean ± SE; 𝑛=7) of rats from diffrent treatment groups after 10 weeks of feeding.

Fatty acid composition of sample (mg/100 g)	Group
	Diet (1 : 1)	Diet (6 : 1)	Diet (30 : 1)	Diet (control)
12 : 0 lauric acid	0.03±0.00^c	0.22±0.04^a	0.12±0.04^b	0.08±0.02^bc
14 : 0 myristic acid	0.18±0.02^a	0.18±0.03^a	0.15±0.02^a	0.15±0.02^a
16 : 0 palmitic acid	16.90±0.37^a	16.61±0.58^a	16.45±0.56^a	15.96±0.20^a
16 : 1 palmitoleic acid	0.35±0.05^a	0.39±0.09^a	0.23±0.04^a	0.21±0.04^a
18 : 0 stearic acid	21.81±0.87^b	23.94±0.60^b	24.22±0.70^a	24.64±0.38^a
18 : 1 oleic acid	7.36±0.70^a	6.20±0.79^b	6.07±0.32^ab	5.15±0.68^b
18 : 2 n-6 linoleic acid	19.48±1.03^ns	16.53±0.70^ns	16.78±1.88^ns	16.53±0.37^ns
18 : 3 n-3 linolenic acid	0.26±0.04^ns	0.33±0.02^ns	0.32±0.03^ns	0.30±0.02^ns
20 : 0 arachidic acid	0.55±0.04^ns	0.42±0.06^ns	0.57±0.07^ns	0.43±0.05^ns
20 : 4 n-6 arachidonic acid	15.58±0.96^b	20.99±1.09^b	21.14±0.77^a	21.74±0.95^a
22 : 0 behenic acid	0.99±0.08^a	0.86±0.05^ab	0.70±0.06^cb	0.66±0.05^c
20 : 5 n-3 ecosapentaenoic	2.73±0.51^a	0.87±0.17^b	0.74±0.20^b	0.73±0.22^b
22 : 6 n-3 docosahexaenoic acid	11.98±0.46^ns	10.26±0.94^ns	10.51±0.53^ns	10.72±1.20^ns
Total saturated	41.44±0.94^ns	43.29±0.49^ns	43.21±1.04^ns	43.56±0.18^ns
Total unsaturated	58.56±0.94^ns	56.71±0.49^ns	56.79±1.04^ns	56.44±0.18^ns
Total monoenes	8.53±0.80 ^ns	7.73±0.84^ns	7.29±0.48^ns	6.42±0.62^ns
Total PUFA n-3	14.97±0.72^a	11.46±1.08^b	11.58±0.65^b	11.75±1.34^b
Total PUFA n-6%	35.06±1.15^ns	37.52±1.01^ns	37.92±1.24^ns	38.27±0.81^ns
n-6 : n-3 ratio	2.40±0.20 ^ns	3.54±0.50^ns	3.36±0.27^ns	3.71±0.66^ns
Unsat : Sat	1.42±0.06^ns	1.31±v0.03^ns	1.32±0.05^ns	1.30±0.01^ns
Poly : Sat ratio	1.21±0.04^ns	1.13±0.03^ns	1.15±0.06^ns	1.15±0.02^ns

Values with different superscripts within rows are significantly different at 𝑃<0.05; ^nsno significant difference; ND: not detected.