Table 4.

PSP extract increases white (WBCs), red (RBCs) cells’ counts and hemoglobin (Hb) concentration in rats treated with DEN/CCl4.

Experimental Groups	Group I	Group II	Group III		Group IV	Group V	Group VI
WBCs count (#*103/L) (mean ± SD)	11.40 ± 3.54	6.70 ± 1.14	16.65 ± 7.23	11.73 ± 2.63		16.24 ± 3.00	15.98 ± 3.17
F (p)	5.165* (0.003)
p1		0.076	0.062	0.904		0.069	0.084
p2			0.001*	0.060		0.001*	0.001*
RBCs count (#*106/L) (mean ± SD)	7.78 ± 0.22	4.88 ± 0.95	7.45 ± 0.42	7.63 ± 0.59		7.51 ± 0.33	7.75 ± 0.55
F (p)	18.600* (<0.001)
p1		<0.001*	0.424	0.696		0.485	0.932
p2			<0.001*	<0.001*		<0.001*	<0.001*
Hb (g/dl) (mean ± SD)	12.78 ± 1.44	7.92 ± 1.63	10.93 ± 0.63	11.32 ± 0.83		11.98 ± 0.81	12.25 ± 0.64
F (p)	12.151* (<0.001)
p1		<0.001*	0.025*	0.058		0.286	0.501
p2			<0.001*	<0.001*		<0.001*	<0.001*

F: F test (ANOVA).

p₁: p value of LSD test between negative control and other groups.

p₂: p value of LSD test between group II and group III, IV, V and VI.

*: Statistically significant at p ≤ 0.05.