Table 5.

Effects of khat extract on body weight change and normalized kidney weight

Groups	Body weight change (%)	Kidney weight (gm)/100 g body weight
CON	2.83 ± 0.48	0.70 ± 0.01
K100	2.22 ± 0.69	0.73 ± 0.01
K200	0.32 ± 0.46a1	0.74 ± 0.01
K400	-4.96 ± 0.28a2	0.82 ± 0.01 a1
GEN	-10.36 ± 57 a3b3c3d3	0.89 ± 0.01a3b3c3d3

Values are mean ± SEM. n = 8; ^acompared to CON, ^bcompared to K100, ^ccompared to K200, ^dcompared to K400. ¹p < 0.05; ²p < 0.01; ³p < 0.001. (CON: control; K100: khat 100 mg/kg; K200: khat 200 mg/kg; K400: khat 400 mg/kg; GEN: gentamicin 100 mg/kg).