| 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 |
| Acacia niloticaOral |
8.7±1.0 |
75.8±8.5 |
1.2±0.3* |
0.5±0.1 |
| Control IP |
7.2±0.8 |
43.2±6.1 |
4.5±1.2 |
2.6±0.7 |
| Acacia niloticaIP |
8.0±0.7 |
37.0±6.9 |
5.8±2.1 |
3.4±1.1 |
|
| 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 issignificantly 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 stem bark extracts of Acacia nilotica in mice for one month on the levelsof selected metabolites. |
