Physiological Scrutiny about the Hematological effects of Resveratrol as compared with some Statins in Rats
Fifty male rats allocated as five groups were adopted, to elucidate the effect of resveratrol against the statins; lovastatin and rosuvastatin. The results disclosed that cholesterol did cause significant elevations in erythrocyte count, hemoglobin, hematocrit, leukocytes and platelets counts with significant declinations in lymphocytes and monocytes. Rosuvastatin caused significant decrease in hemoglobin, hematocrit and leukocytes and the Lovastatin caused significant declination in the leukocytes only. Resveratrol caused all the parameters to be without significant differences comparing with control group. Further details are disclosed in the results.