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

Table 3

Correlation (r) among thymus weights, Hassall’s corpuscles number per mm², ∆CT, and Z test value (z) of the study groups.

Index	Rat group
	gonad-intact		castrated
	males	females	males	females
r between HCs and thymus weight in:
control	0.55	0.15	0.03	0.49
DCA-treated	-0.94	-0.49	0.83	-0.30
z	2.92	0.84	-1.42	0.93
r between ∆CT and thymus weight in:
control	-0.20	-0.50	-0.14	0.09
DCA-treated	-0.43	-0.60	-0.43	0.70
z	0.31	0.18	0.39	-0.85

p = 0.005, in gonad-intact males.
p = 0.00, compared of the gonad-intact control with of the DCA-treated males.
p < 0.04, in castrated males.