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 7 The activities of acetylcholinesterase (μmol SH/g/min) in the cerebral cortex, hippocampus, and hypothalamus of male offspring in groups I to VII, 70 days postnatal. Data were presented as a mean of eight rats ± SEM

Experimental. groups	Cerebral cortex	Hippocampus	Hypothalamus
Group I	14.5 ± 0.33	18.25 ± 0.45	17.62 ± 0.596
Group II	12.37 ± 0.42^a	12.25 ± 0.45^a	12.37 ± 0.625^a
Group III	13.37 ± 0.6	17 ± 0.42^b	17.51 ± 0.41^b
Group IV	11.75 ± 0.37^ac	12.50 ± 0.78^ac	12.93 ± 0.40^ac
Group V	15.12 ± 0.4^bcd	18.12 ± 0.44^bd	14.54 ± 0.279^abcd
Group VI	11 ± 0.33^abce	13.25 ± 0.59^ace	12 ± 0.36^ace
Group VII	15.12 ± 0.40^bcdf	18 ± 0.46^bdf	15.14 ± 0.29^abcdf

^{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