Table 5.
Effect of Nuna kadugu on feed intake in experimental rats - repeated oral toxicity study
| Treatment | Sex | |
|
(g) |
|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1stWeek | 2ndWeek | 3stWeek | 4stWeek | 5thWeek | 6thWeek | |||
|
Control (0.5% CMC) |
M(n=5) |
80.60±3.61 |
82.20±7.44 |
89.40±7.86 |
101.00±1.64 |
|
|
|
| F (n=5) |
83.40±6.08 |
90.00±5.42 |
87.00±6.94 |
90.20±11.06 |
|
|
||
| MF(n=10) |
82.00±3.37 |
86.10±4.5 |
88.20±4.96 |
95.60±5.57 |
|
|
||
|
NK |
(300 mg/kg p.o/day) |
M(n=5) |
93.40±8.76 |
88.60±9.09 |
88.80±9.4 |
93.60±6.71 |
|
|
| F (n=5) |
76.20±2.71 |
81.60±4.41 |
87.40±4.01 |
97.00±7.84 |
|
|
||
| MF(n=10) |
84.80±5.19 |
85.10±4.90 |
88.10±4.86 |
95.30±4.90 |
|
|
||
|
(600 mg/kg p.o/day) |
M(n=5) |
87.40±5.64 |
93.00±4.60 |
92.80±4.12 |
96.60±5.27 |
|
|
|
| F (n=5) |
73.40±4.98 |
78.60±4.32 |
85.80±4.6 |
92.80±3.81 |
|
|
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| MF(n=10) |
80.40±4.24 |
85.80±3.82 |
89.30±3.16 |
94.70±3.13 |
|
|
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|
(900 mg/kg p.o/day) |
M(n=5) |
79.20±4.07 |
76.00±3.7 |
79.80±4.19 |
97.60±2.36 |
|
|
|
| F (n=5) |
85.80±11.83 |
92.80±8.76 |
102.00±5.30 |
90.60±11.38 |
|
|
||
| MF(n=10) |
82.50±6.00 |
84.40±5.30 |
90.90±4.88 |
94.10±5.60 |
|
|
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|
Satellite group | ||||||||
|
Control (0.5% CMC) |
M(n=5) |
81.80±7.79 |
86.20±9.47 |
85.80±9.97 |
80.80±8.80 |
100.60±8.49 |
99.40±14.08 |
|
| F (n=5) |
82.00±7.13 |
89.40±5.87 |
92.20±1.46 |
109.80±1.02 |
98.00±10.21 |
99.20±7.62 |
||
| MF(n=10) |
81.90±4.98 |
87.80±5.28 |
89.00±4.87 |
95.306.39± |
99.30±6.28 |
99.30±7.55 |
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| NK (900 mg/kg p.o/day) | M(n=5) |
82.40±6.93 |
89.00±7.50 |
82.00±5.02 |
103.60±4.74 |
98.00±8.63 |
99.20±6.88 |
|
| F (n=5) |
81.40±5.99 |
81.20±3.71 |
93.80±4.76 |
91.00±9.73 |
100.40±3.88 |
99.80±9.44 |
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| MF(n=10) | 81.90±4.32 | 85.10±4.15 | 87.90±5.02 | 97.30±5.52 | 99.20±4.48 | 99.50±5.51 | ||
Values expressed as mean ± SEM; g – gram; Significance with Tukey’s test following one way ANOVA is evaluated as *p < 0.05 and **p < 0.01 vs control group.