Potential Effects of Antioxidant and Serum Cholesterol-Lowering Effects of Gynura bicolor Water Extracts in Syrian Hamster

Table 1

Effects of the GBWE on the relative organ weights of hamsters fed an HFD for 12 weeks.

Group	Liver	Spleen	Kidney	Heart
	%
ND	3.68 ± 0.43^c	0.09 ± 0.01	0.74 ± 0.04	0.41 ± 0.02
HFD	8.29 ± 0.50^a	0.08 ± 0.02	0.67 ± 0.08	0.42 ± 0.06
Probucol	6.59 ± 0.41^b	0.08 ± 0.01	0.68 ± 0.05	0.39 ± 0.07
GBWE-L	6.22 ± 0.38^b	0.09 ± 0.01	0.70 ± 0.04	0.40 ± 0.06
GBWE-H	6.35 ± 1.07^b	0.09 ± 0.03	0.69 ± 0.02	0.36 ± 0.07

GBWE, G. bicolor water extract; HFD, high-fat diet; GBWE-L, 0.4 g/kg body weight GBWE; GBWE-H, 0.8 g/kg body weight GBWE. The values are presented as the means ± standard deviations from four to five repeats. Groups with different letters (a, b, and c) in the same column are significantly different, as demonstrated by Duncan’s test ().