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. 2007 May;8(5):323–330. doi: 10.1631/jzus.2007.B0323

Table 5.

Weight of tissues expressed as percentage of body weight in SD rats fed with different dosages of chromium in the form of CrNano¹

	Cr (ppb)							SEM²
	0	75	150	300	450	600	1 200	SEM²
Heart	0.33^ab	0.32^ab	0.37^a	0.33^ab	0.30^b	0.33^ab	0.34^ab	0.024
Liver	2.75	2.87	3.12	2.93	2.64	2.86	2.93	0.183
Kidney	0.75	0.85	0.80	0.75	0.74	0.78	0.72	0.058
Spleen	0.22^ab	0.22^ab	0.22^ab	0.18^bc	0.16^c	0.18^bc	0.23^a	0.015
Testicle	1.05^a	0.87^b	0.94^ab	0.88^b	0.88^b	0.82^b	0.84^b	0.044
Hind leg muscle	8.79^b	10.46^a	10.54^a	9.91^ab	10.07^ab	10.26^ab	9.95^ab	0.502

Means in a row with different letters differ significantly (P<0.05)

¹

Data are presented as means, n=10 per treatment

²

Standard error of the mean