PC and LPC molecular species.
Percentage of the major phosphatidylcholine (PC) and lysoPC (LPC) molecular species identified by LC-MS and MS/MS.
The results are expressed as
percentage obtained by dividing the ratio between the peak areas of each molecular species and the respective internal standards and the total of all ratios.
Values are means ± standard
deviation of three independent experiments.
Significant differences (p b 0.05) in the relative abundance of PC and LPC molecular species are noted with different letters.
The identification
of fatty acid composition of each molecular specie is presented in Table B.1 in Appendix B.