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Table 6 The effect of feeding growing female rats different sources of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids on liver fatty acid profile

From: Different sources of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids affects apparent digestibility, tissue deposition, and tissue oxidative stability in growing female rats

 

Treatments

Fatty Acid Measurement1

CO

FO

KO

MO

SO

TO

n-3 PUFA

0.9 ± 0.1b

7.8 ± 1.0b

9.6 ± 1.3b

9.5 ± 1.1b

43.6 ± 5.8a

35.9 ± 2.5a

ALA (18:3n-3)

0.1 ± 0.01b

4.4 ± 0.7a

0.1 ± 0.01b

0.3 ± 0.1b

0.3 ± 0.1b

0.2 ± 0.04b

TG2

0.4 ± 0.03b

21.0 ± 1.6a

0.8 ± 0.1b

1.7 ± 0.2b

1.0 ± 0.1b

0.7 ± 0.1b

PL2

0.1 ± 0.03b

0.9 ± 0.1a

0.3 ± 0.03b

0.3 ± 0.2b

0.1 ± 0.05b

0.1 ± 0.05b

EPA (20:5n-3)

ND

1.7 ± 0.2b

3.7 ± 0.5b

3.0 ± 0.6b

19.4 ± 3.1a

6.3 ± 0.6b

TG2

ND

2.9 ± 0.1c

7.5 ± 0.8a

6.8 ± 0.6ab

7.3 ± 0.8a

4.0 ± 0.5bc

PL2

ND

8.9 ± 1.0a

7.2 ± 0.7a

3.7 ± 0.6bc

4.3 ± 0.3b

2.0 ± 0.1c

DHA (22:6n-3)

0.9 ± 0.1b

1.7 ± 0.2b

5.7 ± 0.8b

6.2 ± 0.7b

23.8 ± 2.9a

29.4 ± 2.0a

TG2

1.0 ± 0.1c

1.0 ± 0.1c

14.9 ± 0.6b

18.2 ± 1.1ab

20.2 ± 1.1ab

23.5 ± 1.6a

PL2

5.2 ± 0.7c

9.5 ± 0.6bc

15.5 ± 0.5ab

13.7 ± 2.9ab

13.7 ± 0.9ab

16.1 ± 0.9a

n-6 PUFA

11.9 ± 0.9a

5.9 ± 0.9b

3.0 ± 0.1c

2.7 ± 0.3c

6.7 ± 0.6b

7.6 ± 0.5b

LA (18:2n-6)

7.1 ± 0.7a

4.1 ± 0.7b

1.4 ± 0.1c

1.3 ± 0.2c

2.0 ± 0.4c

1.6 ± 0.2c

TG2

35.8 ± 1.6a

15.6 ± 0.5b

5.9 ± 0.4c

5.7 ± 0.5c

5.0 ± 0.4c

4.2 ± 0.2c

PL2

9.9 ± 0.8a

11.7 ± 0.6a

3.4 ± 0.b

3.2 ± 0.4b

2.7 ± 0.3b

2.3 ± 0.3b

ARA (20:4n-6)

4.8 ± 0.3b

1.9 ± 0.3c

1.6 ± 0.1c

1.4 ± 0.1c

4.7 ± 0.3b

6.0 ± 0.4a

TG2

4.3 ± 0.5a

0.6 ± 0.1c

0.8 ± 0.1c

1.2 ± 0.2bc

1.4 ± 0.1bc

2.1 ± 0.2b

PL2

26.0 ± 0.9a

12.4 ± 0.7bc

9.4 ± 0.5c

10.0 ± 1.9c

11.7 ± 0.7c

15.3 ± 0.7b

  1. 1Values are expressed as mean (mg FA/g tissue) ± SEM of n = 10 rats/group.
  2. 2Values are expressed as mean (%) ± SEM of n = 10 rats/group.
  3. Different superscript letters a, b, c within the same rows indicate significant differences at P < 0.05 by one-way ANOVA followed by Tukey's test. Abbreviations are CO, corn oil; FO, flaxseed oil; KO, krill oil; MO, menhaden oil; SO, salmon oil; TO, tuna oil; PUFA, polyunsaturated fatty acids; ALA, α-linolenic acid; EPA, eicosapentaenoic acid; DHA, docosahexaenoic acid; LA, linoleic acid; ARA, arachidonic acid; TG, triglyceride; PL, phospholipid; ND, not detectable.