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Table 3 Fatty acid content [%] in various lipid fractions in mice brain

From: The effect of western diet on mice brain lipid composition

 

Procedure I (Kaluzny et al. [27])

Procedure II (Bodennec et al. [28])

 

Acylglycerols

Polar lipids

Free fatty acids

Ceramides

Glycosphingolipids

Sphingomyelin

 

SD

HFD

SD

HFD

SD

HFD

SD

HFD

SD

HFD

SD

HFD

SFA

47.21 ± 5.59

45.13 ± 4.99

48.88 ± 1.00

48.84 ± 0.96

84.36 ± 1.46

83.68 ± 1.98

63.19 ± 3.16

57.55 ± 4.87

58.47 ± 1.68

56.96 ± 0.85

43.15 ± 2.55

44.52 ± 2.44

MUFA

33.73 ± 1.38

36.39 ± 1.61*

32.06 ± 1.89

29.99 ± 2.20

9.83 ± 1.39

9.79 ± 1.27

27.42 ± 2.06

30.32 ± 2.11

32.10 ± 1.57

31.85 ± 1.26

25.19 ± 2.43

23.22 ± 2.92

16:2 n-6

0.03 ± 0.02

0.09 ± 0.08

0.00 ± 0.01

0.00 ± 0.00

0.0005 ± 0.0005

0.002 ± 0.002

0.04 ± 0.01

0.02 ± 0.02

0.01 ± 0.00

0.00 ± 0.00

0.01 ± 0.00

0.01 ± 0.00

LA

14.96 ± 5.40

14.13 ± 5.68

0.26 ± 0.02

0.46 ± 0.04#

2.38 ± 0.13

1.94 ± 0.55

0.53 ± 1.34

0.84 ± 0.44

0.28 ± 0.02

0.59 ± 0.12*

0.23 ± 0.02

0.40 ± 0.09*

20:2 n-6

0.10 ± 0.04

0.08 ± 0.03

0.08 ± 0.00

0.16 ± 0.03#

0.12 ± 0.08

0.02 ± 0.02

0.09 ± 0.02

0.09 ± 0.04

0.07 ± 0.03

0.15 ± 0.01*

0.07 ± 0.02

0.10 ± 0.03

DGLA

0.13 ± 0.03

0.10 ± 0.05

0.30 ± 0.03

0.34 ± 0.04

0.02 ± 0.01

0.08 ± 0.04

0.19 ± 0.05

0.25 ± 0.07

0.19 ± 0.02

0.24 ± 0.03*

0.34 ± 0.02

0.36 0.03

ARA

2.70 ± 0.99

2.72 ± 0.56

6.95 ± 0.86

7.44 ± 0.84

2.69 ± 0.27

3.36 ± 0.02

4.64 ± 1.08

5.54 ± 1.20

4.19 ± 0.53

4.90 ± 0.80

9.79 ± 0.79

9.66 ± 0.61

AdA

0.15 ± 0.05

0.19 ± 0.05

2.18 ± 0.32

2.21 ± 0.19

0.09 ± 0.00

0.16 ± 0.00

0.34 ± 0.07

0.73 ± 0.58

0.55 ± 0.06

0.58 ± 0.07

4.17 ± 0.41

3.86 ± 0.46

PUFA n-6

18.10 ± 5.03

17.37 ± 5.14

10.12 ± 1.31

10.73 ± 0.96

5.32 ± 0.03

5.53 ± 0.53

7.09 ± 1.12

8.04 ± 2.08

5.43 ± 0.55

6.50 ± 0.91

15.17 ± 1.21

14.57 ± 0.85

ALA

0.07 ± 0.06

0.04 ± 0.01

0.02 ± 0.01

0.02 ± 0.01

0.01 ± 0.00

0.02 ± 0.02

0.06 ± 0.04

0.03 ± 0.01

0.02 ± 0.02

0.02 ± 0.02

0.01 ± 0.00

0.02 ± 0.00*

EPA

0.18 ± 0.09

0.15 ± 0.08

0.31 ± 0.03

0.13 ± 0.01#

0.11 ± 0.02

0.29 ± 0.03*

0.34 ± 0.08

0.18 ± 0.12*

0.13 ± 0.01

0.06 ± 0.02#

0.46 ± 0.03

0.22 ± 0.05#

DPA

0.07 ± 0.02

0.06 ± 0.03

0.34 ± 0.05

0.35 ± 0.05

0.03 ± 0.03

0.03 ± 0.00

0.09 ± 0.06

0.11 ± 0.03

0.10 ± 0.02

0.11 ± 0.03

0.54 ± 0.05

0.48 ± 0.07

DHA

0.52 ± 0.17

0.68 ± 0.06

7.99 ± 0.61

9.77 ± 0.66*

0.37 ± 0.06

0.60 ± 0.11

1.58 ± 0.29

3.58 ± 1.50*

3.63 ± 0.42

4.41 ± 0.15*

15.38 ± 1.17

16.86 ± 0.92

PUFA n-3

0.85 ± 0.25

0.93 ± 0.14

8.65 ± 0.66

10.27 ± 0.68#

0.51 ± 0.10

0.93 ± 0.09

2.08 ± 0.35

3.91 ± 1.54*

3.88 ± 0.44

4.61 ± 0.14*

16.39 ± 1.19

17.58 ± 0.97

  1. p-value from t-test: * < 0.05, # < 0.001, AdA – adrenic acid (22:4 n-6), ALA – α-linolenic acid (18:3 n-3), ARA – arachidonic acid (20:4 n-6), DGLA –dihomo-γ-linolenic acid (20:3 n-6), DHA – docosahexaenoic acid (22:6 n-3), DPA – docosapentaenoic acid (22:5 n-3), EPA – eicosapentaenoic acid (20:5 n-3), ETA – eicosatetraenoic acid (20:5 n-3), LA – linoleic acid (18:2 n-6), MUFA – monounsaturated fatty acids, PUFA – polyunsaturated fatty acids, SFA – saturated fatty acids
  2. Boldface, major groups of fatty acid