Table 2.

Effect of PAE on organ index, body weight.

	Weight (g)		Organ Index (g/g %)
Group	Initial	Final	Thymus	Spleen
Control	34.8 ± 2.1	40.3 ± 2.0	0.126 ± 0.016	0.383 ± 0.018
d-gal	33.3 ± 1.3	38.7 ± 0.7	0.070 ± 0.006 ##	0.401 ± 0.019
VE-100	35.2 ± 2.0	38.6 ± 1.4	0.112 ± 0.011 **	0.422 ± 0.057
PAE-3	34.8 ± 1.6	40.0 ± 0.8	0.095 ± 0.007	0.407 ± 0.030
PAE-10	34.7 ± 1.9	40.2 ± 1.4	0.103 ± 0.007 *	0.410 ± 0.014
PAE-30	35.4 ± 1.7	38.1 ± 1.0	0.102 ± 0.006 *	0.417 ± 0.018

The data are expressed as mean ± SEM. n = 9, ## p < 0.01 vs. vehicle control group and * p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01 vs the d-gal-treated control group.