Table 3.
Criteria | References | ||||||||
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(Al-Majed et al., 2006) | (Azzubaidi et al., 2012) | (Hosseinzadeh et al., 2007) | (Hobbenaghi et al., 2014) | (Azizi et al., 2012) | (Ibrahim AbdEl Fattah et al., 2016) | (Balbaa et al., 2016) | (Bargi et al., 2017) | (Ismail et al., 2017) | |
Publication in a peer-reviewed journal | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
Number of experiments and control groups report | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
Housing and Husbandry Conditions | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
Details of intervention/exposure group procedures | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
Random allocation to groups | |||||||||
Allocation concealment | |||||||||
Blinded assessment of outcome | √ | NA | |||||||
Biochemical evaluations | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | ||||
Histological evaluations | √ | √ | √ | √ | |||||
Statistical analysis | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
Total | 8 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 6 |
√, the criterion is satisfied; NA, not applicable.