Table 3.

Effect of different preparations of Tinospora cordifolia stem on forced-swimming-stressinduced changes in mean cell volume, hematocrit and mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration in albino rats

Group	MCV (fL)	HCT (%)	MCHC (g/dL)	RBC count 106/µL	Macro RBC (%)
Control without stress	73.40 ± 0.53	53.94 ± 3.59	8.45 ± 0.37	7.37 ± 0.53	0.93 ± 0.05
Water - controlb	78.58 ± 0.43	67.44 ± 1.68	16.38 ± 0.07	8.67 ± 0.26	1.11 ± 0.05
Plain 'ghrita' 900 mg/kgb	61.96 ± 4.77**@@@	53.76 ± 5.57+	18.83 ± 0.40	7.99 ± 0.79	1.12 ± 0.14
'Guduchi' juice 1.8 mL/ kgb	67.84 ± 0.98@@§	47.34 ± 1.25@+++	18.48 ± 0.35	6.02 ± 0.89	0.83 ± 0.17
WGG 900 mg/kg	74.04 ± 1.21££	58.84 ± 5.20	19.28 ± 2.05	6.99 ± 0.24	1.06 ± 0.14
NGG 900 mg/kgb	66.63 ± 0.83@@§	48.96 ± 2.40+++	18.10 ± 0.59	7.97 ± 0.73	0.76 ± 0.17
SGG 900 mg/kgb	77.06 ± 0.98££	46.65 ± 6.98@+	16.98 ±0.26	7.36 ± 0.37	1.15 ± 0.15

Data is expressed as Mean± SEM.

^**P<0.01 as compared to control without stress,

^@P<0.05,

^@@P<0.01 and

^@@@P<0.001as compared to stress water control,

^££P<0.01 as compared to plain ghrita,

^§P<0.05 as compared to SGG using ANOVA.

⁺P<0.05 and

⁺⁺P<0.001 as compared to stress water control using Unpaired 't' test.

^bThese groups are subjected to forced swimming stress, MCV - mean cell volume, HCT - hematocrit, MCHC - mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration