Amelioration of Rheumatoid Arthritis by Anacardium occidentale via Inhibition of Collagenase and Lysosomal Enzymes

Table 1

Treatment with A. occidentale nearly normalized all the hematological parameters.

Parameters	Groups
	Control	Arthritic	AO (100 mg/kg)	AO (200 mg/kg)	Piroxicam
TLC (10^3)	7.305 ± 0.388	9.293 ± 0.569	8.017 ± 0.321	8.017 ± 0.321	7.807 ± 0.663
Neutrophil (%)	52.66 ± 3.369	66.78 ± 2.660	60.43 ± 3.972	57.94 ± 3.052	54.50 ± 3.355
Lymphocytes (%)	31.18 ± 0.608	33.66 ± 0.708	33.27 ± 1.693	32.02 ± 0.551	31.96 ± 0.532
Monocytes (%)	1.610 ± 0.133	2.412 ± 0.200	2.303 ± 0.1720	2.088 ± 0.117	2.032 ± 0.146
Basophils (%)	0.8050 ± 0.034	0.8500 ± 0.052	0.8400 ± 0.030	0.8267 ± 0.043	0.8117 ± 0.0256
Platelet count (10^3)	4.350 ± 0.250	5.567 ± 0.325	5.133 ± 0.189	4.908 ± 0.364	4.882 ± 0.184
RBC (10^6)	5.827 ± 0.325	4.163 ± 0.405	4.450 ± 0.424	5.057 ± 0.364	4.963 ± 0.144
Hb (g/dL)	14.66 ± 0.3985	11.67 ± 0.8179	12.79 ± 0.3164	13.36 ± 0.4298	13.02 ± 0.6174

indicating significant difference compared to control group, , , and indicating significant difference compared to arthritic group.