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Table 3 Body weight, organ weight and organo-somatic indices in BALB/c mice after different treatments

From: Experimental therapeutic assays of Tephrosia vogelii against Leishmania major infection in murine model: in vitro and in vivo

Treatment

Body weights (g)

Weight of spleen (g)

Spleno-somatic index

Weight of liver (g)

Hepato-somatic index

T. vogelii (IP)

21.10 ± 0.52

0.17 ± 0.021b

0.85 ± 0.10b

0.18 ± 0.021b

0.86 ± 0.01b

T. vogelii (OR)

21.02 ± 1.00

0.21 ± 0.005c

0.99 ± 0.06c

0.20 ± 0.05c

0.98 ± 0.07c

Amphotericin B

21.05 ± 0.54

0.14 ± 0.010a

0.74 ± 0.05a

0.15 ± 0.015a

0.73 ± 0.05a

Pentostam

21.06 ± 0.58

0.15 ± 0.010a

0.75 ± 0.05a

0.16 ± 0.010a

0.75 ± 0.05a

PBS

21.06 ± 1.72

0.38 ± 0.014d

1.83 ± 0.21d

0.37 ± 0.014d

1.83 ± 0.51d

F

2.21

32.25

69.23

29.1498

65.72

Df

4

4

4

4

4

p

0.043

0.0001

0.0003

0.001

0.000

  1. The means in the same column having the same superscript show no significant difference between them