Results showed that CMZ injection caused a significant decrease in body weight gain along with significant decrease in the relative weights of the spleen and thymus.
More recently, ST-1, ST-3, and ST-4 [0 1,000 μg/kg body weight (bw) per day] were reported to markedly decrease the relative weight of testes in the offspring of Sprague-Dawley rats; ST-3 and ST-4, but not ST-1, decreased the relative weight of brain, whereas ST-1 and ST-4 significantly decreased Sertoli cell counts and plasma luteinizing hormone levels (Ohyama et al. 2007).
Inclusion of β-glucanase decreased the relative weight of the GI tract, increased fat digestion in growers and total VFA content in the caecum of finishing broiler chickens.
Enzyme inclusion significantly decreased the relative weight of the GI tracts except for the caecum in the grower and the crop, gizzard and jejunum in finisher broilers.
Treating these diabetic rats with 50 or 100 mg Moringa seeds powder/kg body weight in G3 and G4, respectively, significantly (at P < 0.05 or P < 0.01 or P < 0.001) decreased the relative weight of these organs approaching the normal relative weight of G1.
The statistically significant decrease in the relative pancreas weight of male rats fed the 11 % and 33 % GMO diet compared with the control group in the feeding trial A was not dose dependent.
The testicular effects produced by di 2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (di 2-ethylhexylt, characterized by a decrease in the relative organ weight and histological changes in the seminiferous tubules, can also be phthalateby DEHP-butyl, dinn-penthe and di-n-hexyl phthalates.
Only "neurology" and "gastroenterology" displayed a consistent pattern, with a constant decrease in its relative weight in the four journals studied.
In each 17-position-wide window, the value at the center position of the window was given the highest relative weight, and the relative weight decreased linearly for the values on either side to the edge of the window.
