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Table. 9. Table 9

Kidney weights and histomorphometry detected in HFD mice in this study

Groups	Kidney weights		Histomorphometry

	Absolute (g)	Relative (% of body weights)	Abnormal tubule numbers (per 100 tubules)
Controls
Intact	0.217±0.021	0.683±0.106	7.67±2.58
HFD	0.259±0.016^a	0.387±0.066^a	78.00±5.76^a
References
Metformin	0.229±0.018^d	0.524±0.117^a	56.00±4.60^ac
Silymarin	0.228±0.017^d	0.408±0.105^a	43.50±4.23^ac
HBV diluted
Stock	0.212±0.005^c	0.491±0.087^a	12.00±1.97^c
2-fold	0.227±0.025^c	0.492±0.087^a	33.00±7.67^ac
4-fold	0.247±0.027^b	0.495±0.093^ad	45.17±9.20^ac

Values are expressed mean ± S.D. of six mice

Abbreviations: HFD, high fat diet; HBV: herbal black vinegar

^aP<0.01 and ^bP<0.05 compared with intact control by Least Significant Difference (LSD) test
^cP<0.01 and ^dP<0.05 compared with HFD control by LSD test
^eP<0.01 and ^fP<0.05 compared with intact control by Mann-Whitney (MW) test
^gP<0.01 and ^hP<0.05 compared with HFD control by MW test

Biomed Sci Letters 2018;24:380-9 https://doi.org/10.15616/BSL.2018.24.4.380