Clinical Phytoscience

International Journal of Phytomedicine and Phytotherapy

Table 1 Effects of XNE on relative organ weights of male and female rats at the end of the 90-day safety assessments

From: Safety assessment of the standardized aqueous extract from solid-state cultured Xylaria nigripes (Wuling Shen) in rats

	Relative organ weight (%)^a
	Control	Low	Medium	High
Male
Heart	0.31 ± 0.03	0.32 ± 0.04	0.32 ± 0.04	0.33 ± 0.02
Liver	3.29 ± 0.42	3.19 ± 0.17	3.17 ± 0.20	3.17 ± 0.40
Kidney	0.71 ± 0.06	0.68 ± 0.05	0.72 ± 0.05	0.75 ± 0.05
Adrenal glands	0.012 ± 0.002	0.011 ± 0.002	0.011 ± 0.002	0.011 ± 0.001
Testicles	0.60 ± 0.06	0.61 ± 0.06	0.58 ± 0.10	0.67 ± 0.04
Brain	0.40 ± 0.04	0.39 ± 0.05	0.40 ± 0.05	0.44 ± 0.03
Female
Heart	0.35 ± 0.03	0.34 ± 0.04	0.33 ± 0.04	0.36 ± 0.05
Liver	3.22 ± 0.16	2.96 ± 0.36	2.83 ± 0.29	2.90 ± 0.35
Kidney	0.78 ± 0.05	0.73 ± 0.07	1.01 ± 1.03	0.73 ± 0.08
Adrenal glands	0.022 ± 0.004	0.022 ± 0.003	0.023 ± 0.003	0.023 ± 0.008
Ovary	0.028 ± 0.004	0.030 ± 0.005	0.029 ± 0.003	0.035 ± 0.011
Brain	0.70 ± 0.05	0.70 ± 0.08	0.68 ± 0.09	0.74 ± 0.08

Key: Data are expressed as mean ± SD (n = 10)
^aRelative organ weight (%) = Organ weight / Body weight × 100

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