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

Table 6.

Chromium content in selected tissues of SD rats fed different dosages of chromium in the form of CrNano¹

	Cr (ppb)							SEM²
	0	75	150	300	450	600	1 200	SEM²
Heart (ng/g)	1.13	1.74	1.91	1.92	2.32	2.11	2.54	0.528
Liver (ng/g)	16.13^b	23.96^ab	29.93^a	31.60^a	32.05^a	29.83^a	32.88^a	4.280
Kidney (ng/g)	49.08^b	58.95^ab	69.55^a	75.47^a	76.82^a	76.74^a	85.92^a	5.585
Spleen (ng/g)	1.16	1.46	0.95	1.83	1.15	1.31	1.66	0.325
Testicle (ng/g)	0.77	1.28	0.76	0.89	0.98	0.92	1.22	0.263
Hind leg muscle (ng/g)	11.22^c	11.57^c	15.06^c	20.61^ab	23.63^a	22.44^a	15.60^bc	1.785

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

¹

Chromium content value is per gram of wet weight tissue samples. Data are presented as means, n=10 per treatment

²

Standard error of the mean