Research Article
Antihypercholesterolemic Effects of Fruit Aqueous Extract of Copernicia prunifera (Miller) H. E. Moore in Mice Diet-Induced Hypercholesterolemia
Table 8
Effects of APE on the relative liver weight, malondialdehyde in liver tissue and serum renal metabolites of mice submitted to the hypercholesterolemic diet.
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| SD, standard diet; HD, hypercholesterolaemic diet; SIMV, simvastatin (20 mg/Kg/day, i.g.); RLW, relative liver weight (relative liver weight = liver weight in percent of body weight); MDA, malondialdehyde; AST, aspartate aminotransferase; CREAT, creatinine. APE 150, APE 300 (aqueous fruit pulp extracts 150 and 300 mg/Kg/day, i.g.). Values are given as the mean ± SEM of 7 mice per group. To analyze the significance of the differences between the samples of authors used analysis of variance (ANOVA) followed by the Newman-Keuls comparison test, versus the SD group; versus HD group. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||