Table 3 Fatty acid contents (mg/100 g) of the liver.

From: Fatty acid profiles of muscle, liver, heart and kidney of Australian prime lambs fed different polyunsaturated fatty acids enriched pellets in a feedlot system

Fatty acid

Control

RBO

CO

FSO

SO

RPO

SEM

P

14:0

10.0a

10.0a

10.2a

8.5ab

7.7ab

4.7b

1.43

0.043

15:0

12.0a

7.3bc

9.0b

6.9bc

6.4bc

5.6c

0.86

0.000

16:1n-9c

10.5ab

11.1ab

12.9a

8.0bc

9.2ab

4.9c

1.31

0.004

16:1n-7c

20.4a

18.1ab

17.9ab

11.7c

12.8bc

13.4bc

1.94

0.017

16:0

526.9a

520.5a

541.8a

446.9ab

453.0ab

396.0b

35.51

0.044

17:0

56.9a

39.2b

44.7b

42.6b

41.5b

42.9b

2.61

0.001

18:2n-6 LA

209.5b

407.0a

389.3a

411.1a

434.5a

227.4b

30.30

<0.0001

18:3n-3 ALA

61.6c

70.2bc

104.3ab

128.1a

72.5bc

48.5c

11.83

0.000

18:1n-9

566.8ab

585.4ab

668.0a

423.6cd

459.1bc

313.1d

46.77

0.000

18:1n-7c

36.8b

48.1ab

52.4ab

41.3b

93.5a

64.3ab

15.95

0.041

18:1n-7t

57.1b

118.8ab

147.8a

172.9a

115.0ab

146.5a

22.77

0.023

18:0

748.8a

718.2a

792.8a

743.0a

737.8a

595.5b

30.43

0.002

20:4n-6 ARA

153.0b

243.3a

234.7a

189.5b

253.3a

109.8c

13.62

<0.0001

20:5n-3 EPA

55.3c

53.5c

81.0b

85.1b

57.6c

125.0a

7.68

<0.0001

20:3n-6

26.2

22.7

24.0

27.4

30.8

25.5

2.53

0.303

20:4n-3

7.7

9.8

9.6

6.1

5.2

11.4

2.55

0.515

20:2n-6

3.0b

4.9a

5.9a

5.2a

6.0a

4.5ab

0.55

0.008

20:0

3.7ab

3.1b

5.2a

2.8b

3.2b

4.5ab

0.57

0.045

22:5n-6 DPA-6

5.4b

9.9a

8.7a

4.6b

7.4ab

4.7b

1.05

0.004

22:6n-3 DHA

124.6bc

108.7c

147.1b

152.5b

132.2bc

289.5a

12.19

<0.0001

22:5n-3 DPA-3

147.7ab

134.8b

161.9ab

169.6a

143.7ab

172.4a

9.52

0.050

22:0

6.1ab

5.2b

7.3a

6.1ab

6.0ab

5.9ab

0.55

0.032

23:0

21.2

16.4

19.4

18.5

16.6

18.1

1.67

0.355

24:0

12.6

11.0

13.9

12.2

12.0

13.0

1.20

0.642

Total FA

3093.0b

3373.0ab

3775.0a

3325.0ab

3296.0ab

2776.0b

188.40

0.024

∑SFA

1398.0a

1331.0a

1444.0a

1287.0a

1284.0a

1086.0b

63.30

0.008

∑MUFA

798.3bc

878.4ab

1018.9a

775.0bc

784.2bc

615.7c

66.48

0.007

∑PUFA

829.8b

1110.0a

1234.1a

1206.5a

1180.5a

1034.9a

64.34

0.001

∑n-3 LC-PUFA

335.3cd

306.7d

399.6bc

413.2b

338.7cd

598.2a

24.52

<0.0001

∑n-3 PUFA

396.9d

378.3d

503.9bc

542.9b

412.4cd

647.1a

32.47

<0.0001

∑n-6 PUFA

412.8b

716.4a

712.7a

653.6a

755.4a

382.5b

43.05

<0.0001

∑other FA

66.2a

53.5ab

70.8a

55.7ab

47.2ab

38.8b

7.49

0.045

n-6/n-3

1.0c

1.9a

1.4b

1.3bc

1.9a

0.6d

0.11

<0.0001

  1. *Values within the same row bearing different superscripts differ (P < 0.05). All other abbreviations are as defined in Tables 1 and 2.