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. 2002 Oct;83(5):225–238. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2613.2003.00232.x

Table 3.

Haematological data from female guinea pigs dosed with CAPS daily for 16 days at 825 mg/kg and sampled at 1, 12, 28 and 63 days after the final dose

Day of sampling

Day 1 Day 12 Day 28 Day 63




Control CAPS Control CAPS Control CAPS Control CAPS
RBC 4.89 (0.53) 4.58 (0.56) 4.74 (0.54) 4.35 (0.28) 4.75 (0.10) 4.66 (0.26) 5.07 (0.30) 5.21 (0.14)
HCT 0.423 (0.030) 0.394 (0.053) 0.410 (0.041) 0.371 (0.022) 0.412 (0.009) 0.402 (0.014) 0.435 (0.02) 0.440 (0.012)
Hb 13.0 (0.9) 12.1 (1.6) 13.0 (1.2) 11.6 (0.6) 13.1 (0.2) 12.3 (0.4)* 14.1 (0.7) 14.3 (0.4)
MCV 86.9 (3.1) 86.0 (1.8) 86.5 (1.3) 85.4 (1.9) 86.6 (0.9) 86.4 (3.3) 85.8 (0.8) 84.9 (1.3)
MCH 26.6 (1.0) 26.3 (0.7) 27.5 (0.6) 26.6 (0.5) 27.6 (0.4) 26.5 (1.0) 27.7 (0.2) 27.5 (0.2)
MCHC 30.6 (0.1) 30.6 (0.4) 31.8 (0.2) 31.2 (0.4) 31.8 (0.3) 30.7 (0.9) 32.3 (0.1) 32.4 (0.5)
Retic 131.2 (26.4) 16.0 (10.9)*** 124.9 (28.4) 206.4 (41.6)* 71.4 (18.1) 125.6 (62.1) 54.0 (29.9) 51.1 (23.2)
LFR 77.6 (17.3) 10.9 (5.7)*** 79.8 (19.6) 121.1 (20.9)* 43.3 (12.2) 73.9 (34.0) 30.8 (9.8) 34.3 (14.8)
MFR 34.7 (10.2) 3.1 (2.9)** 26.8 (9.1) 45.5 (8.9)* 16.7 (4.3) 27.3 (15.0) 11.7 (8.8) 9.4 (5.1)
HFR 23.8 (5.6) 2.1 (2.4)*** 18.3 (12.3) 39.8 (13.5) 11.5 (2.3) 24.3 (13.6) 11.6 (11.7) 7.4 (4.4)
Plt 761 (34) 673 (176) 695 (9) 731 (147) 685 (50) 724 (79) 672 (150) 460 (73)*
WBC 1.6 (0.3) 1.2 (0.8) 2.3 (0.5) 2.2 (0.7) 2.4 (1.1) 1.8 (0.6) 2.7 (1.7) 1.4 (0.6)
Neut 0.66 (0.10) 0.56 (0.34) 0.74 (0.17) 0.81 (0.28) 0.77 (0.34) 0.65 (0.23) 0.58 (0.35) 0.33 (0.12)
Lymph 0.73 (0.41) 0.60 (0.37) 1.31 (0.42) 1.17 (0.45) 1.42 (0.77) 1.07 (0.80) 1.71 (1.08) 0.86 (0.37)
Mono 0.04 (0.02) 0.03 (0.03) 0.02 (0.01) 0.04 (0.03) 0.02 (0.02) 0.07 (0.08) 0.03 (0.03) 0.03 (0.04)
Eo 0.08 (0.01) 0.02 (0.03)* 0.07 (0.03) 0.07 (0.07) 0.12 (0.09) 0.11 (0.06) 0.12 (0.09) 0.09 (0.12)
Baso 0.01 (0.01) 0.00 (0.01) 0.02 (0.01) 0.01 (0.01) 0.00 (0.01) 0.03 (0.04) 0.02 (0.01) 0.01 (0.01)*
LUC 0.06 (0.02) 0.02 (0.02)* 0.12 (0.02) 0.09 (0.06) 0.08 (0.06) 0.08 (0.08) 0.20 (0.16) 0.04 (0.02)
FNCC 22.37 (3.80) 6.25 (2.32)*** 18.92 (4.22) 14.41 (4.10) 14.79 (2.90) 18.04 (9.31) 16.82 (2.39) 13.01 (3.12)

Values are means, SD in parentheses.

n = 3 (controls), n = 5 (CAPS) at all time points.

All other information as Table 1.