Table 5 Fatty acid contents (mg/100 g) of the kidney.

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

3.7a

3.3ab

3.7a

2.2b

3.0ab

3.2ab

0.42

0.046

15:0

4.9a

2.8b

3.9ab

3.4b

4.0ab

3.6b

0.40

0.018

16:1n-9c

3.1b

2.7bc

4.1a

2.0c

2.9bc

2.2bc

0.31

0.001

16:1n-7c

5.8a

3.8bc

5.0ab

3.2c

3.8bc

5.3a

0.42

0.001

16:0

270.1

285.3

309.1

264.5

341.0

276.6

25.50

0.293

17:0

24.0a

18.2b

19.7ab

18.8b

22.3ab

19.7ab

1.54

0.041

18:2n-6 LA

167.0c

282.0b

272.3b

293.6b

375.8a

238.4b

23.95

<0.0001

18:3n-3 ALA

24.6a

16.8b

27.7a

30.0a

18.2b

16.3b

1.85

<0.0001

18:1n-9

238.8a

198.1ab

244.2a

165.6b

215.2ab

159.6b

17.83

0.006

18:1n-7c

25.5ab

27.6ab

34.5ab

23.6b

35.6a

30.7ab

3.47

0.043

18:1n-7t

13.8c

26.8bc

30.4ab

45.1a

43.0ab

39.0ab

5.35

0.002

18:0

305.9b

319.5ab

349.1ab

331.8ab

399.1a

300.6b

28.37

0.038

20:4n-6 ARA

132.4c

255.1b

247.5b

208.6bc

334.7a

136.2c

27.11

<0.0001

20:5n-3 EPA

54.0bc

34.5c

59.9bc

71.0b

45.2bc

139.3a

11.20

<0.0001

20:3n-6

10.8

11.7

12.3

17.9

16.6

16.6

2.46

0.214

20:4n-3

7.7

5.1

3.0

2.6

4.5

4.8

1.86

0.467

20:2n-6

3.4d

8.8ab

6.2c

7.5bc

10.9a

5.5cd

0.78

<0.0001

20:0

6.5b

6.3b

6.5b

6.0b

8.1a

5.0b

0.52

0.011

22:5n-6 DPA-6

0.3d

2.6a

1.6b

0.7cd

2.5a

1.1bc

0.19

<0.0001

22:6n-3 DHA

27.7c

42.8bc

52.2b

51.2b

56.8b

97.3a

6.59

<0.0001

22:5n-3 DPA-3

32.2c

51.7b

63.9ab

70a

64.5ab

59ab

5.14

0.000

22:0

31.0b

35.4ab

36.3ab

34.4b

44.0a

29.8b

2.89

0.025

23:0

13.4

10.7

11.0

11.0

12.7

11.3

0.85

0.158

24:0

38.9ab

38.7ab

40.3ab

36.9ab

46.7a

35.5b

3.13

0.032

Total FA

1611.0b

1855.0ab

2015.0ab

1857.0ab

2305.0a

1772.0b

160.60

0.038

∑SFA

699.4

720.9

780.4

709.9

882.1

686.2

61.24

0.232

∑MUFA

358.8ab

330.7ab

400.9a

315.2ab

383.4ab

301.1b

28.89

0.031

∑PUFA

475.5c

730.7b

765.2ab

764.6ab

951.7a

721.8b

66.99

0.002

∑n-3 LC-PUFA

121.4c

134.0bc

179.1bc

194.7b

171.0bc

300.4a

20.81

<0.0001

∑n-3 PUFA

146.1c

150.8c

206.8bc

224.6b

189.2bc

316.8a

21.66

<0.0001

∑n-6 PUFA

317.7d

571.2b

548.5bc

533.8bc

752.6a

401.3cd

51.39

<0.0001

∑other FA

76.9ab

72.0ab

68.3ab

66.7ab

87.7a

62.7b

6.62

0.041

n-6/n-3

2.2c

3.8a

2.7b

2.4bc

4.0a

1.3d

0.17

<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.