Table 2.

Morphology and characteristics of ovary-intact and OVX adult and aged rats

	Adult Intact	Adult OVX	Aged Intact	Aged OVX
Rat wt, g	183 ± 3	218 ± 4†	260 ± 7*	283 ± 10*†
LV wt, mg	0.50 ± 0.02	0.61 ± 0.02†	0.81 ± 0.02*	0.81 ± 0.02*†
LV/Rat wt, mg/g	2.73 ± 0.01	2.80 ± 0.01	3.12 ± 0.03	2.86 ± 0.01
Estradiol, pg/ml	21.37 ± 1.01	5.71 ± 0.38*†	14.59 ± 1.44*	7.64 ± 1.08*†
n	5	5	6	5

Adult rats, 6 mo;aged rats, 23–24 mo. OVX, ovariectomized.

^*Different from adult intact,

^†different from aged intact (P < 0.05).