The potential roles of aluminum chloride and sodium fluoride on the neurotoxicity of the cerebral cortex, hippocampus, and hypothalamus of male rat offspring

The Journal of Basic and Applied Zoology

Table 4 The levels of monoamines (μg/g) in the cerebral cortex of male offspring in groups I to VII, 70 days postnatal. Data were presented as a mean of eight rats ± SEM

Experimental. groups	Norepinephrine	Epinephrine	Dopamine	Serotonin
Group I	0.499 ± 0.12	0.57 ± 0.027	0.4 ± 0.015	0.37 ± 0.019
Group II	0.55 ± 0.028	0.49 ± 0.022	0.37 ± 0.01	0.33 ± 0.016 ^a
Group III	0.57 ± 0.02	0.55 ± 0.014	0.33 ± 0.02	0.36 ± 0.01
Group IV	0.64 ± 0.04^ab	0.64 ± 0.014^bca	0.48 ± 0.013^abc	0.27 ± 0.004^abc
Group V	0.50 ± 0.021^d	0.62 ± 0.02^bc	0.4 ± 0.016^d	0.28 ± 0.01^abc
Group VI	0.63 ± 0.035^abe	0.45 ± 0.034^acde	0.8 ± 0.02^abcde	0.241 ± 0.01^abce
Group VII	0.47 ± 0.017^fdcb	0.49 ± 0.027^cdea	0.72 ± 0.055^abcdef	0.305 ± 0.014^acf

^{a, b, c, d, e, f}: Significant difference in comparison with the group I, II, III, IV, V, VI, and VII, at α = 0.05 (P < 0.05), respectively