Table 2.
Levels of biochemical parameters in serum after administration of PM and/or CoQ10.
| Parameters | Experimental groups |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Control | CoQ10 | PM | PM + CoQ10 L | PM + CoQ10 H | |
| AST (U/L) | 89.75 ± 4.23d | 94.29 ± 3.12d | 182.82 ± 9.48a | 139.68 ± 4.41b | 114.14 ± 3.38c |
| ALT (U/L) | 22.60 ± 0.94c | 23.04 ± 1.39c | 76.74 ± 8.25a | 44.22 ± 0.98b | 32.32 ± 2.39c |
| ALP (U/L) | 206.12 ± 8.05d | 212.18 ± 12.29d | 395.70 ± 23.2a | 327.4 ± 5.94b | 269.14 ± 9.96c |
| Total protein (gm/dl) | 8.73 ± 0.10a | 8.06 ± 0.17a | 6.31 ± 0.23c | 7.33 ± 0.22b | 8.03 ± 0.13a |
| Albumin (gm/dl) | 3.40 ± 0.02a | 3.59 ± 0.08a | 2.21 ± 0.02d | 2.63 ± 0.12c | 3.09 ± 0.04b |
| Creatinine (mg/dl) | 0.73 ± 0.01c | 0.72 ± 0.02c | 0.99 ± 0.04a | 0.87 ± 0.02b | 0.76 ± 0.01c |
| Urea (mg/dl) | 19.72 ± 0.94d | 22.81 ± 1.40d | 74.02 ± 2.97a | 35.87 ± 1.39b | 27.89 ± 0.98c |
All values expressed as the mean ± SE, n = 7.
A statistically significant difference (P ≤ 0.05) is indicated by superscript letters in the same row.