| Treatment |
Metabolite Levels |
| UREA (mmole/L) |
CREAT (µmole/L) |
T-BIL (µmole/L) |
D-BIL (µmole/L) |
| Control Oral |
9.6 ±0.7 |
75.0 ±8.5 |
0.8 ±0.1 |
0.4 ±0.1 |
| Zanha AfricanaOral |
7.4 ±0.6* |
54.4 ±3.2* |
0.5 ±0.1* |
0.3 ±0.1* |
| Control IP |
7.2 ±0.8 |
43.2 ±6.1 |
4.5 ±1.2 |
2.6 ±0.7 |
| ZanhaafricanaIP |
8.2 ±0.8 |
28.6 ±3.5* |
8.7 ±0.9* |
5.3 ±0.8* |
|
| Results are expressed as Mean ± Standard Deviation (SD) for five animals in each treatment; *p<0.05 is considered significant when the mean of the control animals is significantly different from that of the extract treated animals by t-test. |
| Table 7: The effects of oral and intraperitoneal administration of 1 g/kg body weight of aqueous leaf extracts of Zanha africana on the levels of selected metabolites in mice. |
