Bees' Honey Protects the Liver of Male Rats against Melamine Toxicity

Table 1

Effect of honey treatment on CBC in rats supplemented with melamine for 28 days.

Test	Statistics	G1	G2	G3	G4
Hb (g/dL)	Mean ± SE	17.40±0.39	15.54±0.27	17.77±0.29	15.67±0.14
	𝑡-test		3.04**	4.80***	−0.70 N.S
HCT%	Mean ± SE	52.70±0.23	46.26±1.54	53.00±0.47	46.62±0.66
	𝑡-test		3.87**	5.29***	−0.20 N.S
RBC mil/cmm	Mean ± SE	9.66±0.08	8.79±0.31	10.17±0.13	9.31±0.06
	𝑡-test		2.44*	4.73***	−1.85 N.S
MCV (fL)	Mean ± SE	54.40±0.71	50.30±1.39	54.50±0.91	50.46±0.12
	𝑡-test		2.43*	2.05 N.S	−0.11 N.S
MCH (pg)	Mean ± SE	17.36±0.22	16.16±0.31	18.22±0.33	16.47±0.17
	𝑡-test		2.87**	4.31**	−1.50 N.S
MCHC (g/dL)	Mean ± SE	31.88±0.15	31.36±0.22	32.87±0.37	32.58±0.04
	𝑡-test		1.98 N.S	3.06**	−6.31***
WBC/cmm	Mean ± SE	7.800±0.68	13.80±0.81	8.47±0.60	10.72±1.00
	𝑡-test		−11.01***	−4.12**	3.15**
PLT/cmm	Mean ± SE	466.43±208.02	575.34±157.51	482.00±215.18	308.80±168.47
	𝑡-test		−0.52 N.S	0.31 N.S	1.25 N.S

∗Significant at 5% (𝑃<0.05), **highly significant at 1% (𝑃<0.01), ***very highly significant at 0.1% (𝑃<0.001), and N.S: nonsignificant.