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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Mar 9.
Published in final edited form as: J Biomed Nanotechnol. 2015 Dec;11(12):2197–2210. doi: 10.1166/jbn.2015.2156

Table VI.

Effect of nicotine vaccines on body weight and organ/body weight ratio of Balb/c mice.

Group Body weight (g) Organ/Body weight ratios (%)
Heart Lung Liver Spleen Kidney
LIP + Alum 21.21 ± 1.70 0.66 ± 0.08 1.40 ± 0.53 5.11 ± 0.56 0.47 ± 0.08 1.47 ± 0.24
Nic-BSA + Alum 20.36 ± 1.29 0.65 ± 0.12 1.62 ± 0.27 5.02 ± 0.17 0.47 ± 0.07 1.53 ± 0.13
NsL + Alum 20.68 ± 1.73 0.74 ± 0.06 1.50 ± 0.26 5.17 ± 0.55 0.52 ± 0.07 1.54 ± 0.14
Nic-BSA-NsL 21.28 ± 1.52 0.74 ± 0.08 1.39 ± 0.22 5.28 ± 0.53 0.47 ± 0.06 1.53 ± 0.15
Nic-BSA-NsL + Alum 21.68 ± 2.27 0.75 ± 0.12 1.53 ± 0.35 5.25 ± 0.20 0.52 ± 0.04 1.56 ± 0.26
Nic-BSA-LIP 20.43 ± 1.58 0.65 ± 0.13 1.59 ± 0.41 4.92 ± 0.39 0.46 ± 0.05 1.51 ± 0.18
Nic-BSA-LIP + Alum 21.03 ± 1.37 0.74 ± 0.14 1.60 ± 0.27 4.85 ± 0.30 0.50 ± 0.08 1.49 ± 0.15

Notes: Results of the mean body weight and organ/body weight ratio of seven groups mice are expressed as means±SD. Data were analyzed by paired t tests and no differences were significant (P > 0.05, n = 8).