Gender-Related Effect of Sodium Dichloroacetate on the Number of Hassall’s Corpuscles and RNA NKCC1 Expression in Rat Thymus

Table 1

The rat thymus weight data in male and female study groups.

Study group	Thymus weight (g)
	mean (95 % CI)
	males	females
Gonad-intact rats:	0.61 (0.47–0.78)	0.48 (0.42–0.56)
control
DCA-treated	0.38 (0.33–0.43)	0.32 (0.27–0.37)
Castrated rats:	0.80 (0.69–0.92)	0.85 (0.64–1.06)
control
DCA-treated	0.69 (0.58–0.80)	0.65 (0.46–0.84)

p – significant compared with the gonad-intact male control.
p – significant compared with the gonad-intact female control.