Table 1.

Cardiac and hepatic organ iron contents, dry weight iron concentrations, wet-to-dry weight ratio and organ weights

	Control (n = 7)	DFO (n = 8)	DFX (n = 7)	DFO/DFX (n = 8)
Heart
Organ weight, mg	417 ± 60	408 ± 33	344 ± 31*	409 ± 63
Wet-to-dry ratio	4.45 ± 0.21	4.55 ± 0.31	4.53 ± 0.34	4.48 ± 0.35
Iron dry weight, mg/g	2.37 ± 0.41	2.09 ± 0.48	2.6 ± 0.32	1.98 ± 0.39
Organ iron, mg	0.22 ± 0.04	0.19 ± 0.05	0.20 ± 0.02	0.18 ± 0.01
Liver
Organ weight, g	5.94 ± 0.88	5.29 ± 0.57	4.38 ± 0.67*	5.24 ± 0.6
Wet-to-dry ratio	4.36 ± 0.39	4.26 ± 0.27	4.25 ± 0.3	4.23 ± 0.3
Iron dry weight, mg/g	30 ± 2.5	28.3 ± 4.0	19.4 ± 5.2*	16 ± 4.5*
Organ iron, mg	40.8 ± 7.7	35.4 ± 7.2	19.3 ± 3.1*	20.1 ± 7.1*

Data are means ± SD. Analysis of variance was used to determine statistical differences among groups.

^*p < 0.05 (Dunnett’s test).