Effects of dietary vitamin E on muscle vitamin E and fatty acid content in Aohan fine-wool sheep

Table 4 Effects of vitamin E supplementation on saturated fatty acid content (% of total fatty acids) in the longissimus lumborum

Item	Treatments (IU/sheep/d vitamin E)							P-value
	0	20	100	200	1,000	2,000	2,400
C6:0	0.044 ± 0.005	0.030 ± 0.003	0.031 ± 0.011	0.033 ± 0.005	0.052 ± 0.019	0.031 ± 0.003	0.035 ± 0.007	0.5795
C8:0	0.030 ± 0.008	0.025 ± 0.004	0.023 ± 0.010	0.026 ± 0.007	0.054 ± 0.030	0.024 ± 0.001	0.025 ± 0.002	0.6088
C10:0	0.162 ± 0.010	0.131 ± 0.015	0.079 ± 0.003	0.091 ± 0.025	0.109 ± 0.042	0.136 ± 0.019	0.126 ± 0.014	0.1962
C12:0	0.125±0.010^c	0.096 ± 0.003^abc	0.090 ± 0.016^ab	0.065 ± 0.014^a	0.076 ± 0.004^ab	0.100 ± 0.006^bc	0.076 ± 0.007^ab	0.0132
C14:0	2.54 ± 0.18^c	2.09 ± 0.07^abc	1.90 ± 0.38^abc	1.44 ± 0.30^a	1.69 ± 0.10^ab	2.29 ± 0.08^bc	1.71 ± 0.05^ab	0.0250
C16:0	33.96 ± 2.77^c	25.24 ± 1.59^b	23.18 ± 0.30^ab	19.26 ± 1.75^a	22.77 ± 0.67^ab	30.01 ± 1.02^c	25.55 ± 0.40^b	0.0001
C18:0	29.97 ± 1.14^b	23.95 ± 2.32^a	22.33 ± 2.69^a	18.40 ± 0.23^a	23.62 ± 1.02^a	23.88 ± 2.85^a	21.50 ± 0.52^a	0.0213
C20:0	0.263 ± 0.012^c	0.211 ± 0.042^bc	0.175 ± 0.037^ab	0.118 ± 0.012^a	0.200 ± 0.003^bc	0.160 ± 0.023^ab	0.133 ± 0.003^ab	0.0119
C22:0	0.074 ± 0.010	0.057 ± 0.011	0.047 ± 0.003	0.045 ± 0.003	0.078 ± 0.026	0.040 ± 0.002	0.046 ± 0.005	0.2117
C24:0	0.063 ± 0.010	0.056 ± 0.004	0.056 ± 0.012	0.054 ± 0.009	0.092 ± 0.040	0.049 ± 0.005	0.057 ± 0.009	0.6327
C14:0+C16:0	36.50 ± 2.92^d	27.33 ± 1.66^bc	25.08 ± 0.67^ab	20.70 ± 2.05^a	24.46 ± 0.76^ab	32.30 ± 1.09^cd	27.27 ± 0.42^bc	0.0001
SFA	67.23 ± 3.33^d	51.88 ± 1.32^bc	47.91 ± 3.37^b	39.54 ± 2.29^a	48.74 ± 1.42^bc	56.72 ± 3.74^c	49.27 ± 0.12^bc	0.0001

SFA saturated fatty acid.
Values in the same row with different superscripts differ significantly (P < 0.05). Data are presented as the mean ± standard error.

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