Toxicologic Assessment of a Commercial Decolorized Whole Leaf Aloe Vera Juice, Lily of the Desert Filtered Whole Leaf Juice with Aloesorb

Table 5

The effect of aloe vera administration for 13 weeks on rat organ weights.

Parameter	Male control	WL aloe male	Control female	WL aloe female 13 week
Mortalities	0/7	0/7	0/6	0/7
Abnormal clinical signs	0/7	0/7	1/6	0/7
Gross abnormalities at necropsy	0/7	0/7	0/6	0/7
% body weight change	190.3 ± 6.63	177.5 ± 23.10	143.6 ± 5.82	144.4 ± 10.74
Relative organ weight^∧
Liver	3.76 ± 0.233	3.82 ± 0.178	3.30 ± 0.103	3.28 ± 0.164
Kidney (rt)	0.338 ± 0.059	0.374 ± 0.070	0.334 ± 0.045	0.328 ± 0.072
Kidney (lf)	0.334 ± 0.077	0.412 ± 0.098	0.352 ± 0.049	0.336 ± 0.061
Heart	0.325 ± 0.034	0.294 ± 0.050	0.419 ± 0.051	0.376 ± 0.044
Lung	0.490 ± 0.081	0.550 ± 0.080	0.540 ± 0.059	0.497 ± 0.082

All values expressed as mean ± standard deviation.
^∗𝑃≤0.05 compared with gender control.
^∧Relative organ weights are expressed as a percent of body weight.