Tissue dyslipidemia in salmonella-infected rats treated with amoxillin and pefloxacin

Table 6 Cholesterol: Phospholipid ratios in the organs of the animals

	Normal control	Infection control	Infected+ pefloxacin day 5	Infected+ pefloxacin day 10	Infected + pefloxacin day 15	Infected+ amoxillin day 5	Infected+ amoxillin day 10	Infected + amoxillin day 15
Liver	0.17±0.01^a	0.09±0.01^c	0.12±0.01^b	0.11±0.02^b	0.11±0.01^b	0.110±0.01^b	0.13±0.01^b	0.12±0.01^b
Kidney	0.28±0.06^a	0.16±0.02^b	0.21±0.04^a	0.19±0.04^a	0.27±0.04^c	0.259±0.02^a	0.34±0.04^c	0.31±0.06^c
Brain	0.31±0.02^a	0.40±0.02^b	0.26±0.04^c	0.38±0.01^b	0.37±0.02^a	0.313±0.01^c	0.43±0.02^d	0.46±0.07^d
Spleen	0.09±0.02^a	0.18±0.03^b	0.18±0.03^b	0.21±0.02^b	0.25±0.01^b	0.175±0.01^b	0.16±0.04^c	0.19±0.03^b
Heart	0.06±0.01^a	0.12±0.02^b	0.12±0.02^b	0.06±0.01^a	0.05±0.01^c	0.095±0.01^b	0.06±0.01^a	0.05±0.01^a

Each value represents the mean±S.E.M of 5 rats. Values within the same row with different superscripts are significantly different at p<0.05.

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