Emu oil offers protection in Crohn’s disease model in rats

Table 2 Effect of the drug treatments on the relative organ weight, disease activity index, macroscopic scoring and serum biochemical parameters in indomethacin induced CD in rats

	Macroscopic scoring		ROW		DAI (g/cm)
Group	day 6	day 9	day 6	day 9	day 6	day 9
Control	-	-	0.033^a ± 0.008	0.033^a ± 0.001	0.063^a ± 0.0013	0.061^a ± 0.0016
Indomethacin	2.20^d ± 0.20	1.43^b ± 0.20	0.054^b ± 0.002	0.056^d ± 0.001	0.092^b ± 0.003	0.082^b ± 0.0017
Sulfasalazine	2.00^cd ± 0.32	0.71^a ± 0.36	0.037^a ± 0.003	0.041^bc ± 0.001	0.0681^a ± 0.0013	0.063^a ± 0.0027
Aloe vera	1.60^bcd ± 0.25	0.50^a ± 0.22	0.048^ab ± 0.0006	0.049^c ± 0.0021	0.067^ab ± 0.0047	0.064^a ± 0.0016
Emu oil	1.00^abc ± 0.32	Nil	0.045^ab ± 0.004	0.039^ab ± 0.003	0.067^a ± 0.0033	0.064^a ± 0.0032
Aloe vera and emu oil combination	0.60^a ± 0.25	Nil	0.041^ab ± 0.0024	0.042^bc ± 0.001	0.077^ab ± 0.0062	0.063^a ± 0.0045
	Day 6			Day 9
Group	Cholesterol (mg/dL)		ALP (U/L)	Cholesterol (mg/dL)	ALP (U/L)
Control	63.24^a ± 2.14		103.23^a ± 1.01	68.45^a ± 6.58	106.77^a ± 12.37
Indomethacin	61.74^a ± 3.045		272.28^c ± 25.18	49.80^a ± 5.42	274.33^c ± 11.74
Sulfasalazine	50.69^a ± 9.23		182.67^b ± 23.76	52.36^a ± 1.53	224.40^bc ± 17.81
Aloe vera	61.28^a ± 9.27		182.66^b ± 8.71	62.38^a ± 4.22	169.05^abc ± 41.01
Emu oil	57.75^a ± 7.30		138.54^ab ± 8.12	64.35^a ± 4.65	153.50^ab ± 21.45
Aloe vera and emu oil combination	56.44^a ± 9.48		177.32^b ± 20.09	54.98^a ± 8.44	154.60^ab ± 29.65

All the values were expressed as Mean ± S.E. (n = 6) and means bearing different superscripts in a column differ significantly

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