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Table 5.

Morphometric measures of mice treated with free, nanoparticulate curcumin and the control groups

Treatment	Dose (mg/kg)	Weight of organs (g)			Organ coefficient (%)
		Body weight (g)	Liver	Spleen	Liver	Spleen
Nanocurc	5	24.90 ± 0.20^a	1.40 ± 0.05^b	0.12 ± 0.01^a	5.62^a	0.48^a
Nanocurc	10	26.65 ± 1.21^a	1.31 ± 0.08^b	0.15 ± 0.01^b	4.92^a	0.56^b
Free-curc	5	26.53 ± 0.77^a	1.22 ± 0.02^a	0.12 ± 0.01^a	4.60^a	0.45^a
Free-curc	10	25.18 ± 0.47^a	1.14 ± 0.06^a	0.11 ± 0.00^a	4.53^a	0.44^a
Control	–	24.25 ± 1.00^a	0.97 ± 0.07^a	0.10 ± 0.00^a	4.00^a	0.41^a

Nanocurc, nanocurcumin; Free-curc, free curcumin. Similar superscripts denote no significant difference (p > 0.05) while different superscripts denote significant difference (p < 0.05).