N-3 fatty acid intake altered fat content and fatty acid distribution in chicken breast muscle, but did not influence mRNA expression of lipid-related enzymes

Table 4 Relative gene expression of fatty acid desaturases Fads1, Fads2, Fads9, HMG-CoA reductase (HMGCoA), (Acox) and (Cpt1), superoxide dismutase (Sod) and glutathione peroxidase4 (Gpx4) in breast muscle of chickens fed low selenium (Se) diet (0.13 mg Se/kg feed) and high Se (1.1 mg Se/kg feed), without or with linseed oil (LO) in the feed

	Selenium			Linseed oil			Low Se without LO	High Se with LO
	Low	High		Without	With		Low Se without LO	High Se with LO
	n = 33	n = 32	p	n = 32	n = 33	p	n = 16	n = 16	p
Fads1	-0.058	0.157	0.054	0.046	0.053	0.954	-0.021	0.201	0.104
Fads2	-0.197	-0.030	0.476	-0.057	-0.170	0.631	-0.001	0.054	0.850
Fads9	-0.126	0.250	0.107	0.022	0.102	0.733	-0.015	0.441	0.216
HMGCoA	-0.046	0.101	0.166	0.052	0.002	0.638	-0.042	0.054	0.453
Acox	-0.011	0.074	0.231	0.010	0.053	0.553	-0.027	0.102	0.197
Cpt1	-0.093	-0.144	0.600	-0.052	-0.185	0.165	-0.024	-0.209	0.257
Sod	0.066	0.142	0.736	0.167	0.041	0.577	0.009	-0.041	0.873
Gpx4	0.011	0.297	<0.001	0.117	0.191	0.358	-0.023	0.337	<0.001

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