Table 3.

Estimation of mucin, total protein and pepsin activity

Sr. no	Treatment	Gastric wall mucus content (μg of alcian blue/g of wet gland)	Total protein (μg/ml)	Pepsin activity (μmole/ml
1	Control	232.66 ± 6.064	100.83 ± 1.108	42.49 ± 0.8044
2	Ranitidine	309.66 ± 4.248*	95.33 ± 2.404†	36.705 ± 1.486*
3	Cromolyn	304 ± 6.470*	92.5 ± 0.5627*	32.48 ± 1.104*
F, df value		65.306 (2/15)	7.349 (2/15)	18.595 (2/15)
P-value		<0.0001	<0.006	<0.0001

Values are mean ± SEM,n = 6

^*P < 0.01 when compared with control;

^†P < 0.001 when compared with control