Changes in fatty acid composition in tissue and serum of obese cats fed a high fat diet

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Table 5 Changes in FA composition in NEFAs in the serum of cats fed a control or HF diet

		Pre			2 weeks			4 weeks			6 weeks
		(%)			(%)			(%)			(%)
Control (n = 4)	C16:0	21.0	±	1.0	20.0	±	2.8	20.9	±	1.8	21.5	±	2.7
	C18:0	37.8	±	1.6	32.9	±	5.4	36.4	±	2.3	39.8	±	4.5
	C18:1n-9	5.8	±	0.4	5.7	±	0.6^a	4.9	±	0.5	4.8	±	0.5^b
	C18:2n-6	32.9	±	0.9	39.4	±	2.6^**	35.5	±	1.0^c	32.7	±	2.7
	C20:4n-6	2.1	±	0.3	1.6	±	0.2	1.4	±	0.3	1.1	±	0.6
HF (n = 8)	C16:0	20.0	±	2.5	18.8	±	2.0^AB	22.8	±	2.8^A	22.7	±	5.2^*B
	C18:0	34.3	±	2.2	37.4	±	5.10	43.0	±	3.1^*	36.5	±	8.7
	C18:1n-9	6.0	±	0.6	8.7	±	1.8^**Ca	5.8	±	1.1^CD	8.2	±	1.5^**Db
	C18:2n-6	37.0	±	2.1	33.8	±	5.0 ^E	28.3	±	3.7^**Ec	30.2	±	6.1^**
	C20:4n-6	2.6	±	1.0	1.7	±	0.5^**	1.6	±	0.5^**	1.8	±	0.8^**

Significantly different from Pre: ^*; P < 0.05 ^**; P < 0.01. The same capital letters indicate statistically significant differences between the time points (P < 0.05). The same lowercase letters indicate statistically significant differences between the two groups (P < 0.05)

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