Table 1.

Effects of EA on body weight and organ index in D-gal-treated rats

Group	Body weight(g)	Organ index (mg/g)
		Spleen index	Thymus index	Kidney index
Blank control	36.82 ± 1.55	1.87 ± 0.23	1.45 ± 0.21	10.68 ± 0.56
D-gal	29.06 ± 2.24△	1.54 ± 0.24△	1.16 ± 0.15△	8.01 ± 1.32△
VE (150 mg/kg)	34.96 ± 2.67**	1.78 ± 0.15**	1.39 ± 0.18**	9.95 ± 1.29*
EA-L (50 mg/kg)	32.4 ± 2.80*△	1.55 ± 0.28*△	1.18 ± 0.14△	8.29 ± 0.89△
EA-M (100 mg/kg)	35.03 ± 2.26**	1.86 ± 0.19**	1.45 ± 0.19**	9.10 ± 0.94*
EA-H (150 mg/kg)	36.74 ± 1.49**	1.98 ± 0.33**	1.47 ± 0.15**	9.86 ± 0.80*

Notes: Dates are given as mean ± SD (n = 8). ^△P < 0.05 and ^△△P < 0.01 vs blank control

group. *P < 0.05 and **P < 0.01 vs D-gal model group.

EA-H: high-dose EA-treated group, EA-M: the medium-dose EA group.

EA-L: the low-dose EA-treated group.