Fatty acid composition of testicular and adrenal lipids of rats fed with fresh or thermopolymerized linseed oil
Grandgirard, A.
Comptes Rendus des Seances de la Societe de Biologie et de ses Filiales 171(5): 1019-1023
1977
ISSN/ISBN: 0037-9026 PMID: 146542 Document Number: 118523
Rats, 4 weeks old, were given for 66 days a diet containing 10% linseed oil which had been heated at 275 deg C for 12 h; control rats were pairfed with unheated oil. As in liver and adipose tissue studied previously (see NAR 45, 8705) heated oil in the diet increased the content of palmitoleic acid in total fatty acids of testes and adrenals; linoleic acid and the sum of omega 3 polyunsaturated acids decreased, linolenic acid almost disappeared, omega 6 unsaturated acids increased and long-chain polyunsaturated acids of an unusual structure appeared.