Table 2. Absolute and relative organ weights of Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats orally administered TMlp for 5 weeks

Parameters	Control	TMlp
		W/o eps 10%	W/ eps 5%	W/ eps 10%	W/ eps 15%
Absolute organ weights (g)
Liver	12.4±1.03	11.96±1.83	11.36±1.51	11.94±1.10	11.87±1.23
Kidney	1.27±0.07	1.22±0.11	1.171±0.13	1.16±0.09	1.20±0.08
Adrenal gland (mg)	26.38±3.96	25.82±2.09	25.09±3.43	23.43±6.51	25.66±3.81
Heart	1.16±0.07	1.23±0.09	1.10±0.01	1.17±0.02	1.23±0.08
Thymus	0.53±0.09	0.57±0.11	0.80±0.28	0.64±0.12	0.71±0.06
Testes	1.92±0.12	1.77±0.07*	1.73±0.12	1.75±0.09	1.83±0.15
Lung	1.49±0.09	1.36±0.16	1.50±0.03	1.46±0.19	1.47±0.13
Spleen	0.82±0.06	0.67±0.07*	0.72±0.07	0.73±0.08	0.79±0.13
Relative organ weights (g%)
Liver	3.54±0.34	3.57±0.31	3.66±0.73	3.64±0.14	3.48±0.25
Kidney	0.36±0.02	0.37±0.02	0.38±0.06	0.36±0.02	0.35±0.02
Adrenal gland (mg%)	7.38±1.29	7.74±0.21	7.50±0.89	7.30±2.30	7.55±1.16
Heart	0.33±0.03	0.37±0.02	0.35±0.05	0.36±0.02	0.36±0.01
Thymus	0.15±0.03	0.17±0.04	0.26±0.09	0.20±0.04	0.21±0.02
Testes	0.55±0.03	0.53±0.04	0.54±0.09	0.54±0.03	0.54±0.04
Lung	0.42±0.04	0.41±0.03	0.48±0.07	0.45±0.05	0.43±0.03
Spleen	0.24±0.02	0.20±0.02*	0.23±0.03	0.22±0.01	0.23±0.04

Values are presented as mean±SD (n=5).
Significance was determined using Student’s t-test.
p<0.05 compared with control versus W/o eps 10%.
p<0.05 compared with W/o eps 10% versus W/ eps 10%.
TMlp, Tenebrio molitor larvae powder; W/o eps, without expanded-polystyrene-fed; W/ eps, expanded-polystyrene-fed.