The Efficiency of Barley (Hordeum vulgare) Bran in Ameliorating Blood and Treating Fatty Heart and Liver of Male Rats

Table 2

Effect of barley bran on relative organs weight in hypercholesterolemic rats for 8 weeks.

Relative organ weight; (ROW) %	Treatments	G1	G2	G3	G4
	statistics	−ve control	+ve control	5% barley bran	10% barley bran
Heart	Mean ± SE	0.26 ± 0.02^a	0.40 ± 0.04^b	0.30 ± 0.03^b	0.28 ± 0.01^b
	LSD 0.05 = 0.016
	-test		−2.71^*	1.84^NS	2.45^**
Liver	Mean ± SE	3.41 ± 0.14^a	5.36 ± 0.18^b	3.13 ± 0.10^b	3.22 ± 0.13^b
	LSD 0.05 = 0.381
	-test		−13.55^***	11.19^***	7.76^***
Right kidney	Mean ± SE	0.27 ± 0.02^a	0.45 ± 0.01^c	0.30 ± 0.01^b	0.29 ± 0.01^b
	LSD 0.05 = 0.034
	-test		−6.71^***	7.75^***	12.17^***
Left kidney	Mean ± SE	0.36 ± 0.01^a	0.42 ± 0.01^b	0.28 ± 0.01^b	0.29 ± 0.02^b
	LSD 0.05 = 0.049
	-test		−2.79^*	8.42^***	5.07^***
Right testes	Mean ± SE	0.52 ± 0.03^a	0.82 ± 0.03^b	0.51 ± 0.02^b	0.48 ± 0.01^b
	LSD 0.05 = 0.044
	-test		−4.44^***	12.62^***	7.88^***
Left testes	Mean ± SE	0.53 ± .025^a	0.79 ± 0.02^b	0.51 ± 0.03^b	0.51 ± 0.02^b
	LSD 0.05 = 0.076
	-test		−5.77^***	8.69^***	6.70^***

Data are represented as mean ± SE. -test values; ^***. ANOVA analysis: within each row, means with different superscript (a, b, c, or d) are significantly different at , whereas means superscripts with the same letters mean that there is no significant difference at . LSD: least significant difference.^*Significant, ^**highly significant and ^***very high significant.