Table 1.

Represents the changes of body growth and reproductive-organo-somatic indices in response to sodium arsenite ingestion. The organo-somatic indices were expressed in terms of the whole body weight. Organo −somatic indices were improved by following different doses of NAC in arsenic treated rats. Data represent mean ± SE, N = 6, ANOVA followed by post hoc Dunnett t-test was used to find out statistical significance at *p < 0.05.

	Body Weight (g)		Organo-somatic indices (g%)		Water intake (ml/100 g body weight)
	Initial	Final	Ovary in pair	Uterus
Control	108.2 ± 6.74	123.2 ± 7.09	0.0640 ± 0.011	0.181 ± 0.025	8.42 ± 0.52
Arsenic	102.14 ± 5.27	109.14 ± 3.96	0.0412 ± 0.002*	0.099 ± 0.011*	8.28 ± 0.57
As3+ +NAC 50 mg	102 ± 10.26	111.66 ± 18.4	0.0507 ± 0.007	0.121 ± 0.017*	10.73 ± 1.21
As3+ + NAC 100 mg	111.5 ± 5.35	116.33 ± 4.07	0.0547 ± 0.002	0.141 ± 0.017	9.86 ± 0.97