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Table 3 Effect of cottonseed and cottonseed aqueous extracts diet on hematological characteristics of male wistar albino rats

From: Effect of cottonseed milk on growth performance, hematological and semen characteristics in male Wistar albino rats

Parameters

Diets

STD

CSD

CAD

EAD

WBC (103/μl)

11.50 ± 0.72

12.32 ± 1.62

12.46 ± 0.61

11.98 ± 1.84

NEU (103/μl)

3.58 ± 0.30ab

2.80 ± 0.28b

5.27 ± 0.46a

3.75 ± 2.09ab

LYM(103/μl)

7.81 ± 0.87ab

9.48 ± 1.38a

7.04 ± 1.08b

8.10 ± 0.39ab

MON (103/μl)

0.05 ± 0.05

0.01 ± 0.01

0.04 ± 0.03

0.03 ± 0.03

EOS (103/μl)

0.03 ± 0.01

0.03 ± 0.02

0.04 ± 0.02

0.03 ± 0.02

BAS (103/μl)

0.02 ± 0.03

0.00 ± 0.00

0.06 ± 0.11

0.07 ± 0.12

RBC (106/μl)

8.50 ± 0.32ab

8.34 ± 0.14b

6.92 ± 1.20c

7.75 ± 0.39bc

HGB (g/dL)

15.37 ± 0.29a

14.33 ± 0.21ab

12.53 ± 1.53b

14.20 ± 0.95ab

HCT (%)

61.27 ± 1.21a

61.53 ± 1.21a

56.33 ± 0.64b

59.93 ± 2.75a

MCV (fL)

71.95 ± 2.70b

73.77 ± 1.81ab

82.83 ± 12.68a

77.37 ± 0.38ab

MCH (ρg)

18.13 ± 0.83

17.23 ± 0.06

18.20 ± 0.92

18.33 ± 0.47

MCHC (g/dL)

25.10 ± 0.26a

23.37 ± 0.57ab

22.23 ± 2.58b

23.73 ± 0.74ab

PLT (103/μl)

792.67 ± 197.88

659.00 ± 17.35

733.67 ± 203.49

732.00 ± 16.09

MPV (fL)

6.90 ± 0.30

7.03 ± 0.06

6.80 ± 0.66

6.90 ± 0.20

PDW (%)

15.57 ± 0.06a

15.63 ± 0.15a

15.47 ± 0.38ab

15.60 ± 0.20a

PCT (%)

0.55 ± 0.14

0.46 ± 0.01

0.49 ± 0.09

0.51 ± 0.02

  1. STD Standard diet, CSD Cottonseed diet, CAD standard diet with conventional aqueous extracted cottonseed milk for 1 ml/100 g of animal weight/day, EAD standard diet with enzyme assisted aqueous extracted cottonseed milk for 1 ml/100 g of animal weight/day; Values are mean ± SD of five observations from the experimental animals; The values mentioned in superscripts are significantly different at P < 0.05 in the same row; WBC white blood cells, RBC red blood cells count, HGB hemoglobin, HCT hematocrit, PLT platelet, NEU neutrophils, LYM lymphocytes, MON monocyte, EOS eosinophil, BAS basophil, MCV mean corpuscular volume, MCH mean corpuscular hemoglobin, MCHC mean cell hemoglobin concretion, MPV mean platelet volume, PDW platelet distribution width and PCT plateletcrit