Table 1.

Characteristics of aged rat hearts in the control and treated groups

	Young	SHAM	DMSO	PC 2.5	PC 5	PC 10	PC 20
HW/BW (mg/g)	2.74 ± 0.12	2.73 ± 0.07	2.74 ± 0.09	2.9 ± 0.1	3.05 ± 0.04	2.85 ± 0.15	2.75 ± 0.07
HW/TL (mg/mm)	22.08 ± 1.49	32.31 ± 0.77*	31.3 ± 1.17*	35.33 ± 2.09*	35.79 ± 1.66*	35.5 ± 1.38*	33.54 ± 1.17*

Values are means ± SEM.

BW: body weight; HW: heart weight; TL: tibia length.

^* p < 0.001 compared to the young group.