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. 2021 May 17;28(37):52046–52063. doi: 10.1007/s11356-021-14427-y

Table 7.

Effect of ETO on the comet tail parameters in bone marrow and spleen of rats treated with ZnO-NPs (instead of Fig. 4)

Experimental groups	Bone marrow			Spleen
Experimental groups	% tail DNA	TM	OTM	% tail DNA	TM	OTM
Control	5.41 ± 0.13^a	0.30 ± 0.02^a	1.06 ± 0.02^a	5.48 ± 0.37^a	0.31 ± 0.03^a	1.04 ± 0.07^a
ZnO-NPs	9.41 ± 0.41^c	0.68 ± 0.06^d	1.73 ± 0.11^c	16.39 ± 0.34^c	1.54 ± 0.08^c	3.25 ± 0.09^c
ETO(LD)	5.88 ± 0.24^a	0.29 ± 0.01^a	1.03 ± 0.05^a	5.82 ± 0.10^a	0.35 ± 0.02^a	1.18 ± 0.03^a
ETO(HD)	6.06 ± 0.19^a	0.40 ± 0.04^ab	1.21 ± 0.08^a	6.31 ± 0.17^a	0.42 ± 0.02^a	1.23 ± 0.02^a
ZnO-NPs + ETO(LD)	8.10 ± 0.43^b	0.58 ± 0.05^cd	1.46 ± 0.08^b	12.67 ± 0.44^b	1.49 ± 0.12^c	2.98 ± 0.13^b
ZnO-NPs + ETO(HD)	7.66 ± 0.27^b	0.50 ± 0.04^bc	1.42 ± 0.04^b	11.79 ± 0.47^b	1.26 ± 0.12^b	2.78 ± 0.13^b

Data expressed as mean % ± S.E. Within each column, the values % with different superscript letters are statistically different (P<0.05)