Table 2.
Effect of the chloroform extract of Paulownia tomentosa (Thunb.) Steud. fruits & isolated ursolic acid on serum ALT, AST and ALP of rats.
Parameters | Control | Control Treated fruits | Diethyl nitrosamine | Diethyl nitrosamine Treatment fruits | Treated Ursolic acid | ANOVA P ≤ |
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ALP | 65.82 ± 0.85c | 65.37 ± 0.98c | 174.80 ± 4.26a | 109 ± 1.88b | 70.78 ± 1.27c | 0.0001 |
AST | 51.49 ± 0.83b | 33.22 ± 0.54d | 80.23 ± 1.16a | 49.53 ± 0.98bc | 44.99 ± 0.67bc | 0.0001 |
ALT | 28.49 ± 0.32cd | 21.75 ± 0.39e | 50.99 ± 1.2a | 31.18 ± 0.59bc | 28.58 ± 0.34cd | 0.0001 |
⁃ Data are means ± SE of eight rats in each group.
⁃ Data are expressed as U/ml for ALT, AST and ALP.
⁃ Unshared letters between groups are significance value at p ≤ 0.05.
⁃ Statistical analysis is carried out using one way analysis of variance (ANOVA) by Co Stat Computer Program.