Table 6.

Effect SAME on thyroid histopathology

Treatment	Colloids depletion	Hypertrophy	Hyperplasia	Blood vessel congestion	Follicular architecture
Control	-	-	-	-	-
3 ml/kg CCl4	+++	+++	+++	+++	+++
100 mg/kg SAME+CCl4	-	−/+	-	−/+	−/+
200 mg/kg SAME+CCl4	-	-	-	-+	-
200mg/kg SAME alone	-	-	-	-	-

-, normal; −/+, mild; ++, medium; +++, severely damaged.