Table 3.

Blood counts in rats at the end of 14 days of treatment.

Analyte	Vehicle	Acrylamide 25 mg/kg	Acrylamide 50 mg/kg	Reference intervals+
Erythrocytes	8.00 ± 0.09	4.79 ± 0.63*	3.44 ± 0.11*	7.80- 8.65 103/mm3
Hb	14.34 ± 0.12	9.35 ± 1.04*	9.23 ± 0.10*	13.20-17.10 g/dl
Hto	43.35 ± 0.68	28.51 ± 3.67*	30.70 ± 0.32*	35-45%
MCV	53.60 ± 0.76	41.28 ± 2.11*	32.33 ± 0.86*	45.00- 65.00 fl
MCH	17.70 ± 0.27	18.25 ± 0.73	18.03 ± 0.41	15.53-20.05 pg
MCHC	32.81 ± 0.34	32.52 ± 0.63	32.33 ± 0.62	25.88-32.88 g/dl
Leukocytes	6.71 ± 0.52	3.93 ± 0.71*	3.75 ± 0.23*	4.00-17.00 103/mm3
Platelets	736.14 ± 49.53	297.14 ± 94.23*	226.66 ± 3.05*	300.00-1500.00 103/mm3

The data are expressed as mean ± SEM.

^*p <  0.05, vs. vehicle group (one-way ANOVA for independent groups followed by Student-Newman-Keuls post hoc test).

⁺Source: Vaquero [32], Arcila et al. [33].