. 2018 Nov 9;10(11):465. doi: 10.3390/toxins10110465

Table 1.

Body weight (BW), absolute and relative organ weight of the rats in study (data are means ± standard deviation (SD) of 6 individuals/group).

Group	Days in Treatment	Control	20 ppm	50 ppm	100 ppm
BW_initial (g)	5	326.7 ± 15.2	323.6 ± 10.7	324.0 ± 9.60	331.1 ± 9.93
BW_initial (g)	10	325.5 ± 13.9	329.4 ± 6.9	336.9 ± 15.6	329.8 ± 20.6
BW_final (g)	5	346.7 ± 14.6 ^b	316.9 ± 17.5 ^a	315.5 ± 17.2 ^a	308.1 ± 15.1 ^a
BW_final (g)	10	368.0 ± 11.6 ^b	321.8 ± 28.5 ^ab	283.4 ± 36.1 ^a	270.7 ± 47.9 ^a
BW_gain (g)	5	19.9 ± 2.29 ^c	-6.73 ± 7.97 ^b	−8.55 ± 7.95 ^b	−23 ± 10.7 ^a
BW_gain (g)	10	42.5 ± 13.4 ^c	-7.58 ± 30.0 ^b	−53.5 ± 29.0 ^ab	−59.1 ± 34.1 ^a
liver (g)	5	14.1 ± 1.18 ^b	10.1 ± 1.37 ^a	10.1 ± 0.87 ^a	8.97 ± 0.41 ^a
liver (g)	10	15.2 ± 1.14 ^b	9.12 ± 2.55 ^a	7.83 ± 1.66 ^a	7.45 ± 1.41 ^a
rel. liver (%)	5	4.07 ± 0.28 ^b	3.15 ± 0.29 ^a	3.22 ± 0.21 ^a	2.92 ± 0.08 ^a
rel. liver (%)	10	4.12 ± 0.22 ^b	2.92 ± 0.52 ^a	2.73 ± 0.32 ^a	2.80 ± 0.19 ^a
kidney (g)	5	2.33 ± 0.19	2.07 ± 0.12	2.27 ± 0.27	2.07 ± 0.16
kidney (g)	10	2.47 ± 0.21 ^ab	2.42 ± 0.22 ^ab	2.30 ± 0.22 ^a	2.77 ± 0.39 ^b
rel. kidney (%)	5	0.68 ± 0.04	0.63 ± 0.05	0.72 ± 0.10	0.67 ± 0.08
rel. kidney (%)	10	0.67 ± 0.05 ^a	0.78 ± 0.15 ^a	0.83 ± 0.10 ^ab	1.05 ± 0.21 ^b
lung (g)	5	2.35 ± 0.28 ^b	1.82 ± 0.40 ^a	1.60 ± 0.22 ^a	1.52 ± 0.12 ^a
lung (g)	10	1.73 ± 0.14	1.60 ± 0.13	1.55 ± 0.14	1.58 ± 0.13
rel. lung. %	5	0.68 ±0.07 ^b	0.57 ± 0.13 ^ab	0.51 ± 0.07 ^a	0.49 ± 0.04 ^a
rel. lung. %	10	0.47 ± 0.04 ^a	0.52 ± 0.04 ^ab	0.55 ± 0.06 ^ab	0.60 ± 0.07 ^b

^{a, b}: small uppercase letters indicate significant difference (p < 0.05) between means of one row. Bold number pairs indicate significant difference (p < 0.05) between 5 and 10-day treatment data.