[Essential polyunsaturated nutrients in the development of rat striated muscle]

The striated muscle of the rat demonstrates, throughout the growth, an increase of the short C-chain saturated and of the mono-unsaturated fatty acids; a decrease of the saturated and poly-unsaturated fatty acids and shows a great quantity of the hyper-unsaturated (eicosapentaenoic and docosaesaenoic) fatty acids. The supplementation with linoleic and alpha-linolenic acids induces some effects of stabilization of the poly-unsaturated fatty acids in the grown-up and adult rat.