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Table 3.

Peripheral blood changes observed in rats after 82 days treatment with different doses of C. edulis CH₂Cl₂/MeOH (1:1) stem bark extract.

Sex of animal	Dose (mg/kg BW)	Hematocrit (%)	WBC counts (x10 ³ /mm ³ )	RBC counts (x10 ⁶ /mm ³ )
Females	0	49.41±1.93^a	5.32±0.68^a	4.25±0.32^a
	25	48.28±2.32^a	5.40±0.93^a	4.10±0.61^a
	50	47.07±2.63^a	6.16±0.64^a	3.96±0.52^a
	100	47.61±1.47^a	5.40±0.59^a	3.71±0,29^a
	200	46.09±1.81^a	5.20±0.82^a	3.66±0.33^a
Males	0	48.64±1.26^a	5.84±1.13^a	4.14±0.32^a
	25	50.42±1.84^a	5.32±0.38^a	4.46±0.60^a
	50	47.04±1.35^ab	5.68±0.61^a	3.86±0.39^a
	100	46.83±1.77^ab	5.48±0.69^a	3.73±0.47^a
	200	45.06±1.24^b	4.92±0.33^a	3.64±0.57^a

Values are expressed as mean±SD of five animals. Doses are expressed in mg/kg body weight (BW), WBC: white blood cells; RBC: red blood cells. For the same sex and in the same column, values bearing different superscript letters are significantly (p < 0.05) different from each other.