Group Time intervals Vitamin A* Vitamin E* Vitamin C*
(microg/dl) (microg/ml) (mmol/ml)
  2 27.0 ± 0.1a 0.89 ± 0.01c 0.25 ± 0.04
Group I 5 26.9 ± 0.4a 0.72 ± 0.09b 0.26 ± 0.00
(Control) 8 22.7 ± 0.8b 0.75 ± 0.02b 0.63 ± 0.14
  11 26.2 ± 1.3a 0.63 ± 0.05a 0.56 ± 0.04
  17 29.8 ± 1.4c 0.97 ± 0.03c 0.25 ± 0.01
  2 26.4 ± 0.3a 0.89 ± 0.07c 0.53 ± 0.02
Group II 5 29.8 ± 0.2c 0.88 ± 0.01c 0.16 ± 0.02
(1 mg/kg) 8 24.6 ± 0.7a 0.80 ± 0.06b 0.10 ± 0.03
  11 26.6 ± 2.1a 0.62 ± 0.07a 0.05 ± 0.00
  17 29.9 ± 1.5c 0.99 ± 0.04c 0.08 ± 0.03
Group III (2 mg/kg) 2 25.1 ± 0.3a 0.89 ± 0.03c 0.89 ± 0.28
5 29.9 ± 0.3c 0.70 ± 0.06b 0.08 ± 0.02
8 25.9 ± 0.7a 0.88 ± 0.02c 0.16 ± 0.10
11 29.5 ± 1.7c 0.63 ± 0.05a 0.23 ± 0.17
  17 30.0 ± 1.0c 0.99 ± 0.09c 0.12 ± 0.06
  2 25.5 ± 0.1a 0.80 ± 0.03b 0.62 ± 0.04
Group IV 5 29.7 ± 0.1c 0.75 ± 0.06b 0.23 ± 0.07
(3 mg/kg) 8 26.3 ± 0.4a 0.57 ± 0.06a 0.08 ± 0.04
  11 23.9 ± 0.6b 0.71 ± 0.16b 0.05 ± 0.01
  17 32.3 ± 0.4c 0.75 ± 0.08b 0.11 ± 0.03
  2 25.6 ± 0.1a 0.80 ± 0.01b 0.31 ± 0.07
Group V 5 28.5 ± 0.1c 0.89 ± 0.24c 0.13 ± 0.05
(4 mg/kg) 8 26.1 ± 0.2a 0.76 ± 0.14b 0.11 ± 0.02
  11 28.8 ± 1.1c 0.63 ± 0.12a 0.07 ± 0.01
  17 30.4 ± 1.7c 0.80 ± 0.08b 0.13 ± 0.02
Table 2: Blood antioxidant vitamins, vitamin A, vitamin E and vitamin C after oral administration of various doses of salinomycin in sheep. *Significant difference between controls and other groups and small different letters show significant difference between various times of experiment in each group (P<0.05).