Effect of feeding BHC on the biochemical parameters of blood in rabbits

Studies were made by feeding 25 mg per kg body weight of BHC to rabbits daily for twelve weeks. BHC in the blood increased progressively without affecting blood pH. The levels of glucose, cholesterol, total proteins and creatinine increased while that of urea decreased in the blood of treated animals. The differences among the control and treated rabbits for these parameters were highly significant as every one microgram per ml accumulation of BHC in the blood, affected a corresponding increase of 1.82 mg/dl glucose, 2.618 mg/dl of cholesterol, 0.02 g/dl of total proteins and 0.13 mg/dl of creatinine, while a decrease of 0.105 mg/dl of urea was observed. The feeding of BHC, therefore, affected these vital biochemical parameters significantly.