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

Table 2

The number ofHassall’s corpuscles in thymus of the study groups.

Study group	Number of HCs per mm^2
	[median (range)]
	males	females
Gonad-intact rats:	0.05 (0–0.16)	0.05 (0–0.26)
control
DCA-treated	0.48 (0.18–1.0)	0.2 (0.07–0.48)
Castrated rats:	0.26 (0.22–0.55)	0.28 (0.16–0.49)
control
DCA-treated	0.4 (0.15–0.62)	0.26 (0.07–0.34)

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