Table 1.
Compositions of LA oil and CLA oil.
Fig 1.
Daily body weight and food intake of dams fed different doses of CLA.
Values are means ± SDs (n = 6). (A) Daily body weight of dams. (B) Food intake of dams.CON group, 3.0% LA oil; L-CLA group, 1.0% CLA + 2.0% LA; M-CLA group, 2.0% CLA + 1.0% LA; H-CLA group, 3.0% CLA; D, effect of lactation time; T, effect of CLA treatment; D×T, time and treatment interaction.
Fig 2.
Daily weight of nursing pups fed different doses of CLA from day 4 to day 10 of lactation.
Values are means ± SDs (n = 6). CON group, 3.0% LA oil; L-CLA group, 1.0% CLA + 2.0% LA; M-CLA group, 2.0% CLA + 1.0% LA; H-CLA group, 3.0% CLA; D, effect of lactation time; T, effect of CLA treatment; D×T, time and treatment interaction.
Table 2.
Effects of CLA on the milk and liver of dams.
Fig 3.
Dams and eight pups of the CON and H-CLA groups at day 10 of lactation.
Table 3.
Effect of high-dose CLA on the blood metabolites of dams.
Fig 4.
Insulin tolerance test results of lactating mice in the CON and H-CLA groups.
Values are means ± SDs (n = 6). (A) ITT values of lactating mice. (B) Calculation of KITT (%min) after a dose of 0.75 U of insulin per kg of body weight. CON group, 3.0% LA oil; H-CLA group, 3.0% CLA; ITT: insulin tolerance test; KITT: rate constant for ITT; **P <0.01.