. 2017 Aug 30;2017:4317321. doi: 10.1155/2017/4317321

Table 2.

Effects of methanolic leaf extract of A. dubius, C. pepo, and V. unguiculata on body mass index in progesterone-induced obese mice.

Treatment	Time (Days)
Treatment	0	7	14	21	28
Normal control	297.37 ± 2.01^a	301.38 ± 1.95^b	302.31 ± 1.64^b	302.72 ± 1.10^b	303.91 ± 0.76^b
Progesterone (10 mg/kg bw)	303.41 ± 1.48^a	312.48 ± 2.34^a	313.97 ± 1.94^a	316.41 ± 1.84^a	317.49 ± 1.79^a
Orlistat (10 mg/kg bw)	301.16 ± 1.02^a	295.70 ± 2.06^b	292.49 ± 1.91^c	290.48 ± 1.69^c	288.40 ± 1.97^c
A. dubius (200 mg/kgbw)	299.84 ± 0.91^a	302.69 ± 0.56^b	305.53 ± 0.99^b	305.53 ± 2.66^b	307.89 ± 1.99^b
A. dubius (400 mg/kgbw)	301.84 ± 1.13^a	296.34 ± 2.93^b	291.60 ± 2.49^c	291.90 ± 3.35^c	290.11 ± 2.44^c
C. pepo (200 mg/kgbw)	300.01 ± 0.43^a	308.11 ± 1.55^ab	308.56 ± 1.62^ab	308.23 ± 2.58^ab	308.39 ± 1.10^b
C. pepo (400 mg/kgbw)	301.08 ± 1.32^a	303.21 ± 2.28^bc	305.47 ± 3.52^ab	300.95 ± 2.80^b	300.55 ± 3.66^b
V. unguiculata (200 mg/kgbw)	299.70 ± 0.96^a	307.46 ± 1.01^ab	306.79 ± 0.98^ab	304.96 ± 3.05^ab	304.92 ± 3.21^ab
V. unguiculata (400 mg/kgbw)	300.65 ± 0.77^a	306.90 ± 1.90^ab	299.18 ± 5.98^bc	299.63 ± 6.01^bc	296.59 ± 8.58^b

Values expressed as Mean ± SEM for five animals per group. Statistical comparisons were made within a column and values with the same superscript letter are not significantly different by one-way ANOVA followed by Tukey's post hoc test (p > 0.05).