Table 2.

Organ weight and serum hormone levels of 4- and 23-day-old male rats from each group.

	No.	body weight (g)	spleen (mg)	thymus (mg)	testosterone (pg/ml)	estrogen (pg/ml)
4-day-old rats
Control	20	10.14 ± 1.11	51.4 ± O.1	24.1 ± 1.1	166.6	17.8
Total-C-C	24	9.90 ± 0.68	46.3 ± 1.0 *	20.4 ± 1.4 *	390.1	28.9
Filtered-C-C	25	9.55 ± 0.86	42.1 ± 4.3 **	19.0 ± 1.5 **	255.8	16.0
23-day-old rats
Control	10	32.35 ± 2.33	134.1 ± 16.1	108.4 ± 17.4	361.1 ± 139.4	39.8 ± 19.8
C-Total-C	11	34.25 ± 3.61	144.5 ± 15.2	105.5 ± 15.1	497.4 ± 220.6 *	40.4 ± 26.8
C-Filtered-C	8	32.84 ± 5.12	127.1 ± 20.1	93.2 ± 17.3 *	659.5 ± 356.2 **	52.5 ± 22.4

Values are expressed as mean ± SD. Testosterone and estrogen levels on day 4 were pooled serum from males. ^* Different from Control, p < 0.05; ^** different from Control, p < 0.01