. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Sep 2.

Published in final edited form as: Biometals. 2009 Sep 17;23(1):51–58. doi: 10.1007/s10534-009-9266-8

Table 2.

Zinc concentrations in the plasma and prostates of the rats fed the MZD, MZD +P or ZA diet

	MZD	MZD +P	ZA	P-value
Plasma (mg/l)	0.56 ± 0.03^a	0.90 ± 0.06^b	1.15 ± 0.05^c	<0.0001
Prostate
Ventral lobe (mg/kg)	11.92 ± 0.80^a	14.39 ± 0.91^a	12.49 ± 0.70^a	0.09
Dorsolateral lobe (mg/kg)	66.06 ± 1.48^a	169.82 ± 1.58^b	204.17 ± 1.26^b	<0.0001

Values are means ± SEM. Main effects were determined by one-way ANOVA with Bonferroni’s post hoc test. Means without a common letter differ, P<0.05