Table 2.

Body weight, organ weight, relative organ weight of normal and 100, 200, 500, 1000 mg/kg body weight of C-phycocyanin treated mice for subacute toxicity study.

	Normal	C-PC (100 mg/kg)	C-PC (200 mg/kg)	C-PC (500 mg/kg)	C-PC (1000 mg/kg)
Day 0 BW (gm)	22.12 ± 0.78	20.15 ± 0.14	21.02 ± 0.89	21.50 ± 0.69	20.84 ± 0.56
Day 30 BW (gm)	25.34 ± 0.65	23.22 ± 0.78	24.69 ± 0.45	25.21 ± 0.63	23.89 ± 0.79
BW Gain	3.22 ± 0.13	3.07 ± 0.64	3.67 ± 0.44	3.71 ± 0.06	3.05 ± 0.23
Liver weight (gm)	1.41 ± 0.57	1.39 ± 0.98	1.40 ± 0.91	1.45 ± 0.78	1.38 ± 0. 68
Kidney wt (gm)	0.55 ± 0.06	0.51 ± 0.04	0.56 ± 0.02	0.58 ± 0.07	0.49 ± 0.05
Spleen wt. (gm)	0.24 ± 0.07	0.21 ± 0.05	0.27 ± 0.59	0.28 ± 0.70	0.21 ± 0. 06
Liver/BW ratio	0.055	0.059	0.056	0.057	0.057
Kidney/BW ratio	0.021	0.021	0.022	0.023	0.020
Spleen/BW ratio	0.009	0.009	0.010	0.011	0.008

Values are mean ± SEM of 5 Balb/c mice. No significant difference was observed at p < 0.05.