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

Table 5 Effects of vitamin E supplementation on saturated fatty acid content (% of total fatty acids) in the gluteus medius

Item	Treatments (IU/sheep/d vitamin E)							P-value
	0	20	100	200	1,000	2,000	2,400
C6:0	0.037 ± 0.007	0.037 ± 0.006	0.033 ± 0.006	0.031 ± 0.005	0.042 ± 0.012	0.037 ± 0.008	0.033 ± 0.001	0.9374
C8:0	0.040 ± 0.009	0.036 ± 0.009	0.022 ± 0.006	0.021 ± 0.002	0.051 ± 0.032	0.043 ± 0.012	0.044 ± 0.012	0.7198
C10:0	0.200 ± 0.036^b	0.091 ± 0.010^a	0.097 ± 0.006^a	0.073 ± 0.008^a	0.138 ± 0.039^ab	0.103 ± 0.008^a	0.187 ± 0.034^b	0.0147
C12:0	0.152 ± 0.049	0.159 ± 0.056	0.074 ± 0.014	0.055 ± 0.013	0.071 ± 0.008	0.100 ± 0.009	0.136 ± 0.017	0.1321
C14:0	2.93 ± 0.94	2.68 ± 0.85	1.61 ± 0.29	1.16 ± 0.30	1.59 ± 0.14	2.03 ± 0.21	2.96 ± 0.38	0.1601
C16:0	32.52 ± 2.31^c	22.89 ± 1.01^b	23.69 ± 0.27^b	16.56 ± 2.92^a	21.66 ± 0.82^b	24.36 ± 1.11^b	23.67 ± 0.48^b	0.0004
C18:0	25.87 ± 3.50	24.69 ± 4.49	20.08 ± 1.46	15.09 ± 3.29	19.86 ± 1.57	18.56 ± 0.29	20.38 ± 0.46	0.1444
C20:0	0.118 ± 0.010	0.171 ± 0.060	0.195 ± 0.074	0.096 ± 0.023	0.135 ± 0.010	0.108 ± 0.054	0.169 ± 0.042	0.6802
C22:0	0.043 ± 0.007	0.051 ± 0.004	0.069 ± 0.022	0.041 ± 0.008	0.066 ± 0.023	0.035 ± 0.002	0.064 ± 0.011	0.4205
C24:0	0.142 ± 0.088	0.060 ± 0.003	0.061 ± 0.010	0.054 ± 0.008	0.085 ± 0.033	0.055 ± 0.008	0.083 ± 0.017	0.6291
C14:0+C16:0	35.46 ± 1.56^c	25.57 ± 0.65^b	25.30 ± 0.06^b	17.72 ± 3.21^a	23.25 ± 0.93^b	26.38 ± 1.32^b	26.63 ± 0.13^b	0.0001
SFA	62.05 ± 4.92^c	50.87 ± 5.19^bc	45.93 ± 1.34^b	33.18 ± 6.47^a	43.69 ± 2.28^ab	45.43 ± 1.49^b	47.73±0.58^b	0.0057

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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