Research Article
Safety Evaluation of Artocarpus altilis as Pharmaceutical Agent in Wistar Rats
Table 2
Relative body (BW) and organ weights of control and experimental groups (g) (values in parenthesis indicate organ-BW ratio)
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| Group | Initial BW | Final BW | Liver | Kidney | Heart | Brain | Spleen |
| Con | 161a ± 9.67 | 152a ± 7.63 | 4.29a ± 0.53 (2.28) | 1.05a ± 0.27 (0.69) | 0.45a ± 0.15 (0.29) | 1.42a ± 0.95 (0.93) | 0.32a ± 0.01 (0.21) |
| ALA | 183a ± 5.83 | 168a ± 2.01 | 5.19a ± 0.31 (3.08) | 1.29a ± 1.38 (0.76) | 0.62a ± 0.23 (0.36) | 1.56a ± 0.80 (0.92) | 0.35a ± 0.01 (0.20) |
| ALM | 161a ± 4.31 | 150a ± 8.43 | 4.46a ± 0.75 (2.97) | 1.16a ± 0.25 (0.77) | 0.60a ± 0.42 (0.40) | 1.57a ± 0.77 (1.04) | 0.34a ± 0.01 (0.22) |
| ABA | 172a ± 6.66 | 155a ± 5.28 | 4.11a ± 0.77 (2.65) | 1.16a ± 0.37 (0.78) | 0.61a ± 0.64 (0.39) | 1.50a ± 0.97 (0.96) | 0.28a ± 0.03 (0.18) |
| ABM | 172a ± 5.52 | 184b ± 5.96 | 5.52a ± 0.87 (3.00) | 1.42a ± 0.31 (0.77) | 0.62a ± 0.28 (0.33) | 1.47a ± 1.02 (0.79) | 0.36a ± 0.02 (0.19) |
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ALA: leaf aqueous extract, ALM: leaf 80% MeOH, ABA: bark aqueous extract, ABM: bark 80% MeOH extract. Mean values carrying different superscripts a, b, c … in columns differ significantly .
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