Abstract
Summary
Spectrophotometric determinations of polyenoic acids showed that the milk of rats whose diet contained methyl linoleate as the only source of fatty acid contained significant quantities of unconjugated dienoic, trienoic and tetraenoic acids. Feeding of vegetable oils caused a great increase in concentration of unconjugated dienoic acid and, to a smaller extent, an increase of trienoic and tetraenoic acids in milk fat.
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