Lipids in Health and Disease

Table 1 Fatty acid profile of the experimental diets^a

From: Dietary supplementation of α-linolenic acid induced conversion of n-3 LCPUFAs and reduced prostate cancer growth in a mouse model

	Diet^c, %
Fatty acid	CON	L-ALA	H-ALA	EPA	n-6	n-3
14:0	1.09 ± 0.01	1.13 ± 0.08	0.75 ± 0.03	1.06 ± 0.00	1.15 ± 0.07	1.17 ± 0.03
15:0	0.09 ± 0.00	0.09 ± 0.01	0.08 ± 0.01	0.09 ± 0.00	0.10 ± 0.10	0.09 ± 0.01
16:0	24.9 ± 0.20	24.7 ± 0.26	13.8 ± 0.45	21.2 ± 0.23	23.2 ± 0.16	25.2 ± 0.18
16:1	0.97 ± 0.02	0.51 ± 0.03	0.31 ± 0.01	0.58 ± 0.01	0.25 ± 0.02	0.61 ± 0.03
17:0	0.15 ± 0.01	0.12 ± 0.01	0.08 ± 0.00	0.13 ± 0.03	0.13 ± 0.00	0.13 ± 0.01
18:0	6.26 ± 0.08	4.96 ± 0.16	2.86 ± 0.06	5.48 ± 0.06	5.66 ± 0.02	5.35 ± 0.13
18:1	53.0 ± 0.11	36.7 ± 0.30	21.3 ± 0.02	37.2 ± 0.40	28.0 ± 0.14	39.3 ± 0.16
18:2	11.9 ± 0.07	13.4 ± 0.01	16.7 ± 0.13	15.5 ± 0.10	39.9 ± 0.08	10.6 ± 0.10
18:3	0.60 ± 0.02	17.2 ± 0.12	42.4 ± 0.61	1.16 ± 0.03	0.39 ± 0.04	0.44 ± 0.01
20:0	0.67 ± 0.01	0.93 ± 0.13	1.68 ± 0.20	0.56 ± 0.01	0.58 ± 0.01	0.51 ± 0.02
20:1	0.31 ± 0.01	0.19 ± 0.01	0.12 ± 0.01	0.47 ± 0.01	0.23 ± 0.01	0.34 ± 0.02
20:4 n-6	ND^b	ND	ND	0.97 ± 0.03	ND	0.57 ± 0.02
20:4 n-3	ND	ND	ND	0.60 ± 0.01	ND	0.31 ± 0.01
20:5	ND	ND	ND	12.9 ± 0.41	ND	7.03 ± 0.15
22:0	ND	ND	ND	0.20 ± 0.02	0.35 ± 0.03	ND
22:5 n-6	ND	ND	ND	ND	ND	0.58 ± 0.00
22:5 n-3	ND	ND	ND	0.38 ± 0.01	ND	0.69 ± 0.01
22:6	ND	ND	ND	1.62 ± 0.11	ND	7.01 ± 0.08

^aValues are means ± SEMs (n = 3)
^bND, not detected
^cData expressed as percentage of total fatty acids. L-ALA, low-ALA; H-ALA, high-ALA; CON, control

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