Research Article
Black Tea May Be a Prospective Adjunct for Calcium Supplementation to Prevent Early Menopausal Bone Loss in a Rat Model of Osteoporosis
Table 3
Urinary excretion of calcium, phosphate, creatinine, and hydroxyproline; calcium : creatinine (Ca : Cr) ratio; and serum alkaline phosphatase (AP) and tartrate-resistance acid phosphatase (TRAP) activities in the sham-operated control group (Group A), bilaterally ovariectomized group (Group B), ovariectomized + BTE-supplemented group (Group C), and ovariectomized + estradiol-treated group (Group D) of rats.
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Values are expressed as mean ± SE (). *denotes significance level based on the Kruskal-Wallis nonparametric ANOVA test and **denotes significance level based on the Mann-Whitney multiple-comparison test. NS denotes not significant. |