The Beneficial Impact of the Black Chokeberry Extract against the Oxidative Stress in the Sublingual Salivary Gland of Rats Intoxicated with Cadmium

Table 1

Absolute and relative weights of the sublingual salivary glands in all experimental groups of female rats¹.

Experimental group	3 months	10 months
(g), median (minimum–maximum)
Control	6.2 (5.2–9.5)	6.5 (3.1–8.6)
ChE	6.5 (5.4–9.4)	6.4 (3.0–7.4)
Cd1	7.5 (3.9–9.4)	8.8 (4.6–10.9)
Cd1+ChE	7.5 (6.2–10.0)	11.9 (8.2–15.0)^a†b†
Cd5	8.1 (6.7–10.2)	8.1 (4.7–10.9)
Cd5+ChE	8.2 (3.8–24.5)	8.0 (3.3–12.2)
, median (minimum–maximum)
Control	2.02 (1.59–3.18)	1.46 (0.68–2.04)
ChE	2.26 (1.48–2.87)	1.51 (0.69–1.92)
Cd1	2.56 (1.26–3.08)	1.98 (1.06–2.61)
Cd1+ChE	2.56 (2.00–3.50)	2.47 (2.10–3.01)^a†b†
Cd5	2.68 (2.15–3.51)	1.52 (1.01–2.50)
Cd5+ChE	2.58 (1.25–8.54)	1.99 (0.77–27.40)

¹The absolute weight of the left and right salivary glands is presented. The relative weight of the sublingual salivary glands is expressed as the ratio of the weight of the two glands together (expressed as grams) and the body weight of rats (expressed as grams). Statistically significantly different (Kruskal-Wallis post hoc test) versus ^athe control group and ^bthe ChE group. ^†.