TABLE 1.
Body and organ mass of rats exposed prenatally and continuously for 8 wk to unfiltered or filtered Beijing air
Site | Male | Female | ||||||||
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Filtered (n = 8) |
Unfiltered (n = 6) |
P | Filtered (n = 8) |
Unfiltered (n = 6) |
P | |||||
Mean | sd | Mean | sd | Mean | sd | Mean | sd | |||
Body | 275 | 33.6 | 324 | 27.6 | 0.011 | 194 | 8.54 | 214 | 14.5 | 0.019 |
Liver | 11.5 | 0.91 | 14.2 | 1.55 | 0.005 | 7.72 | 0.61 | 9.07 | 0.83 | 0.008 |
Spleen | 0.79 | 0.05 | 0.88 | 0.06 | 0.008 | 0.49 | 0.06 | 0.65 | 0.10 | 0.009 |
Adrenal | 0.04 | 0.00 | 0.06 | 0.01 | 0.002 | 0.05 | 0.01 | 0.06 | 0.01 | 0.092 |
Thymus | 0.60 | 0.08 | 0.66 | 0.06 | 0.112 | 0.53 | 0.09 | 0.53 | 0.07 | 0.938 |
Heart | 1.01 | 0.06 | 1.18 | 0.13 | 0.024 | 0.73 | 0.04 | 0.79 | 0.05 | 0.041 |
Brain | 1.41 | 0.07 | 1.46 | 0.04 | 0.095 | 1.34 | 0.07 | 1.36 | 0.08 | 0.569 |
Lung | 0.82 | 0.09 | 0.93 | 0.09 | 0.035 | 0.66 | 0.04 | 0.74 | 0.03 | 0.002 |
Epididymal fat | 1.25 | 0.23 | 1.48 | 0.19 | 0.064 |