Table 1. Effects of cisplatin and indole-3-carbinol on nephrotoxicity markers in rats.
Treated groups | No of dead rats | Body weight (g) |
Relative kidney weight | Blood urea nitrogen (mg/dl) | Serum creatinine (mg/dl) | |
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Before treatment | After treatment | |||||
Control | 0/10 | 183.80 ± 8.5 | 228.30 ± 9.4* | 0.71 ± 0.05b | 35.75 ± 3.7b | 0.38 ± 0.12b |
Cisplatin | 3/10 | 185.00 ± 18.7 | 152.60 ± 10.4* | 0.94 ± 0.20a | 174.33 ± 10.82a | 3.21 ± 0.85a |
Cisplatin/indole-3-carbinol (20 mg/kg) | 0/10 | 174.00 ± 13.5 | 172.00 ± 13.7 | 0.57 ± 0.10b | 64.17 ± 14.50a,b | 1.42 ± 0.16a,b |
Indole-3-carbinol (20 mg/kg) | 0/10 | 178.30 ± 12.6 | 195.00 ± 8.9 | 0.74 ± 0.10b | 34.83 ± 2.40b | 0.46 ± 0.05b |
All nephrotoxicity markers were assessed at the end of the experiment (7 days following cisplatin single dose injection).
Data are mean ± SD (n = 6–10).
a or b: Statistically significant when compared to the control or cisplatin group, respectively, P < 0.05 using ANOVA followed by Tukey-Kramer as post-hoc test.
*Statistically significant when compared to the values obtained before treatment, P < 0.05 using unpaired t-test.