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This study reports on the plasma lipid compositions of sheep fed either a control diet (C), a control diet supplemented with tallow (A) or polyunsaturated fatty acid (B) that had been protected against hydrolysis and hydrogenation in the rumen, or a control diet supplemented with maize oil (D). Diet B considerably increased the 18∶2 content of all the major plasma lipid fractions. Although the feeding of diet D also resulted in an increase in the 18∶2 contents within the cholesteryl ester, unesterified fatty acid, and phospholipid fractions the increases were considerably less than those observed with diet B; the levels of 18∶2 within the triglyceride fraction remained similar to that for the sheep which received the control diet. The effect of feeding diet A was confined solely to the triglyceride fraction where the concentrations of 16∶0 and 18∶1 were increased. The lipoproteins of the plasma were separated into very low density lipoproteins (d<1.006), low density lipoproteins (1.006<d<1.063), and high density lipoproteins (1.063<d<1.21), and the distribution of the major lipids between these lipoprotein fractions was investigated. Diet B increased considerably the proportion of triglyceride found in association with the very low density fraction and the concentrations of 18∶2 within all the lipoprotein fractions; these increases in the concentrations of 18∶2 were not confined to any particular lipid fraction of the lipoproteins. In contrast, the increases in the concentrations of 18∶2 produced as a result of feeding diet D were confined to the low and high density lipoproteins. The effect of feeding diet A was confined to fatty acid changes within the triglycerides of the low and very low density lipoproteins.
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Noble, R.C., Vernon, R.G., Christie, W.W. et al. The effect of dietary fats on the plasma lipid composition of sheep. Lipids 12, 423–433 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02533627
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