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. 2019 Jul 8;11(7):1544. doi: 10.3390/nu11071544

Table 2.

Effect of frequent changes in diet or periodic starvation on rat ovary and uterus weights.

Organ Weight CG SG PSG
Ovary (mg) 68.1 ± 7.01 b 51.4 ± 5.80 a 57.5 ± 8.0 a
(mg/100 g b.w.) 29.6 ± 4.54 b 23.0 ± 2.99 24.9 ± 2.98
Uterus (mg) 483 ± 26.2 a 522 ± 70.7 a 471 ± 67.6 a
(mg/100 g b.w.) 207 ± 20.4 a 226 ± 33.5 a 217 ± 21.7 a

CG—Control group, SG—Sugar group, PSG—Periodically starved group, b.w.—Body weight, a,b—Means marked with different letters in the same line are statistically different, p ≤ 0.05.