Table 7.

Absolute organ weight of Sprague-Dawley rats treated orally G. bimaculatus over a 13--week period

Sex	Organs	CON	0.04	0.2	1	5 (g/kg bw/day)
Male	Adernal gland R.	0.047 ± 0.012	0.050 ± 0.011	0.061 ± 0.014	0.536 ± 0.015	0.086 ± 0.082
	L	0.043 ± 0.006	0.047 ± 0.011	0.051 ± 0.018	0.053 ± 0.013	0.043 ± 0.015
	Kidney R.	1.605 ± 0.322	1.605 ± 0.133	1.610 ± 0.181	1.408 ± 0.261	1.543 ± 0.143
	L.	1.542 ± 0.279	1.476 ± 0.255	1.589 ± 0.180	1.416 ± 0.237	1.527 ± 0.191
	Heart	1.442 ± 0.149	1.370 ± 0.168	1.409 ± 0.180	1.316 ± 0.148	1.307 ± 0.110
	Liver	13.353 ± 1.0690	13.030 ± 0.1620	12.874 ± 1.4520	9.486 ± 3.709	11.656 ± 1.0780
	Lung	2.068 ± 1.191	2.123 ± 0.454	2.273 ± 0.434	1.972 ± 0.257	1.930 ± 0.112
	Spleen	0.822 ± 0.087	0.782 ± 0.809	0.807 ± 0.108	0.744 ± 0.154	0.684 ± 0.127
	Testis R.	1.708 ± 0.188	0.771 ± 0.195	1.743 ± 0.130	1.694 ± 0.150	1.700 ± 0.274
	L.	0.583 ± 0.280	0.795 ± 0.183	1.730 ± 0.115	1.717 ± 0.198	1.706 ± 1.706
	Stomach	0.960 ± 0.224	0.740 ± 0.430	2.395 ± 0.468	2.216 ± 0.312	2.295 ± 0.236
	Pancreas	0.611 ± 0.082	0.627 ± 0.143	0.699 ± 0.078	0.463 ± 0.101	0.554 ± 0.110
	Thymus	0.362 ± 0.097	0.382 ± 0.111	0.382 ± 0.117	0.365 ± 0.145	0.321 ± 0.079
Female	Adernal gland R.	0.053 ± 0.011	0.058 ± 0.012	0.046 ± 0.009	0.050 ± 0.009	0.046 ± 0.013
	L	0.053 ± 0.012	0.053 ± 0.009	0.047 ± 0.009	0.048 ± 0.010	0.043 ± 0.015
	Kidney R.	1.041 ± 0.213	1.018 ± 0.127	1.033 ± 0.101	0.973 ± 0.075	1.042 ± 0.227
	L.	1.088 ± 0.136	1.018 ± 0.089	1.016 ± 0.103	1.070 ± 0.074	0.994 ± 0.070
	Heart	0.967 ± 0.036	0.863 ± 0.059	1.030 ± 0.210	0.870 ± 0.042	0.880 ± 0.071
	Liver	8.521 ± 1.524	8.269 ± 1.000	8.742 ± 0.961	7.405 ± 0.734	7.410 ± 0.837
	Lung	1.636 ± 0.169	1.515 ± 0.103	1.775 ± 0.252	1.592 ± 0.283	1.569 ± 0.238
	Spleen	0.637 ± 0.107	0.585 ± 0.085	0.654 ± 0.091	0.509 ± 0.070	0.535 ± 0.074
	Ovary R.	0.088 ± 0.015	0.080 ± 0.027	0.095 ± 0.019	0.082 ± 0.014	0.081 ± 0.030
	L	0.079 ± 0.023	0.076 ± 0.009	0.088 ± 0.024	0.073 ± 0.012	0.068 ± 0.020
	Stomach	1.965 ± 0.651	1.805 ± 0.488	1.997 ± 0.520	1.916 ± 0.332	1.970 ± 0.380
	Pancreas	0.566 ± 0.144	0.509 ± 0.055	0.536 ± 0.051	0.477 ± 0.085	0.526 ± 0.080
	Thymus	0.249 ± 0.062	0.243 ± 0.097	0.282 ± 0.148	0.165 ± 0.033	0.169 ± 0.033

(g)

Each value represents mean ± S.D.

Statistically significant from control (*P < 0.05)