Table 1.

Weight and laboratory data (SEM).

	Vehicle	DEX	DEX+MEL
body weight (gm)	527.08 ± 8.77	521.50 ± 9.93	479.56 ± 15.86 *
liver weight (gm)	16.98 ± 0.77 *	17.94 ± 0.87	16.96 ± 0.80 *
liver/BW (%)	3.19 ± 0.11	3.49 ± 0.12	3.53 ± 0.10
triglyceride (mg/dL)	74.85 ± 2.15	74.78 ± 3.39	64.13 ± 3.54 *
cholesterol (mg/dL)	123.15 ± 9.85	126.33 ± 11.78	84.25 ± 5.89 * †
AST (U/L)	81.0 ± 5.13	89.44 ± 7.57	87.50 ± 6.03
ALT (U/L)	44.85 ± 2.69	47.63 ± 5.36	48.25 ± 5.89

DEX: prenatal dexamethasone; DEX+MEL: melatonin treatment after prenatal dexamethasone; SEM: standard error of means; AST: aspartate transaminase; ALT: alanine transaminase; BW: body weight. * p < 0.05 compared with DEX group; ^† p < 0.05 compared with vehicle group.