The Protective Effects of Cobra Venom from Naja naja atra on Acute and Chronic Nephropathy

Table 2

Serum levels of total cholesterol, triglyceride, albumin, globulin, and albumin/globulin in control and adriamycin chronic nephropathy rats.

	Saline + saline	Adriamycin + saline	Adriamycin + NNAV 30 𝜇g/kg	Adriamycin + NNAV 90 𝜇g/kg	Adriamycin + NNAV 270 𝜇g/kg
Total cholesterol (mmol/L)	2.34±2.98^###	13.19±1.41 ***	17.79±2.74 ***	9.37±3.98^#∗∗∗	13.32±3.02 ***
Triglyceride (mmol/L)	1.99±0.56^###	26.18±5.37 ***	46.27±12.14 ***	11.63±9.37^##	27.08±13.76 ***
Albumin (g/L)	29.08±4.22^###	17.16±1.69 ***	14.11±2.30 ***	22.26±5.24^##∗∗	18.86±2.82 ***
Globulin (g/L)	25.92±3.91^##	47.24±6.09 **	75.05±19.61 ***	35.66±8.32	53.95±16.88 ***
Albumin/Globulin	1.15±0.23^###	0.37±0.06 ***	0.21±0.10 ***	0.68±0.33^##∗∗∗	0.40±0.18 ***

The data represent means ± standard deviation. **𝑃<0.01 and ***𝑃<0.001 compared with “saline + saline” group. ^#𝑃<0.05, ^##𝑃<0.01, and ^###𝑃<0.001 compared with “adriamycin + saline” group; 𝑛 = 7–10.