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. 2005 Jan 20;113(4):447–453. doi: 10.1289/ehp.7469

Table 4.

Mean concentrations (μg/kg dry matter) of nonylphenol in tissues of male and female lambs.

Year 1
Year 2
Year 3
SED
Significance
M F M F M F Treatment Year Sex Treatment Year Sex
Liver
 Treated
  No.a 5/5 8/8 9/9 9/9 1/9 1/9
  Concentration 11.2 (125) 12.8 (163) 9.8 (97) 10.5 (111) 0.7 (0.44) 10.3 (107) 1.01 1.30 1.01 NS # NS
 Control
  No. 6/8 7/8 9/9 8/9 1/9 9/9
  Concentration 6.9 (47.6) 6.7 (44.9) 13.6 (184) 11.0 (122) 1.4 (1.96) 4.0 (16.0)
Kidney fat
 Treated
  No. 3/3 2/3 0/9 0/9 0/3 0/3
  Concentration — (490) — (7.2) — (ND) — (ND) — (ND) — (ND)
 Control
  No. 3/3 3/3 1/9 1/9 0/3 0/3
  Concentration — (513) — (347) — (245) — (510) — (ND) — (ND)
Muscle
 Treated
  No. 8/9 4/8 8/8 6/9 9/9 9/9
  Concentration 13.0 (169) 9.15 (83.7) 16.7 (279) 21.5 (462) 43.5 (1,892) 37.9 (1,436) 1.85 2.23 1.85 # # NS
 Control
  No. 3/8 5/9 9/9 9/9 9/9 9/9
  Concentration 10.6 (112) 10.4 (108) 7.07 (50.0) 18.7 (350) 22.7 (515) 18.3 (335)

Abbreviations: ND, not detectable, NS, not significant; SED, standard error of the difference. Data were square-root transformed (liver and muscle) before analysis; back-transformed means are given in parentheses.

a

Numbers of samples that contained detectable amounts of NP/number assayed; the limit of detection was 0.01 μg/g.

#

p < 0.001.