Table 2.

Pregnancy outcomes of rats following treatment with 70% ethanol M. stenopetala leaf extract

Variables	Treatment group			Control group
	250 mg/kg	500 mg/kg	1000 mg/kg	Pair-fed control	Ad libitum control
No. of fetuses	109	106	105	112	113
No. of implantation sites/litter	11.3 ± 0.48	11.0 ± 1.89	10.7 ± 0.82	11.5 ± 1.08	11.3 ± 1. 06
No. of resorption sites/litter	0.4 ± 0.70	0.4 ± 0.48	0.6 ± 0.42a	0.4 ± 0.48	0.4 ± 0.51
No. of live fetuses/litter	10.9 ± 0.74	10.6 ± 1.58	10.1 ± 0.53	11.2 ± 1.14	11.3 ± 1.06
No. of dead fetuses/litter	0	0	0	0	0
Weight of gravid uterus	68.7 ± 7.64	68.3 ± 10.63	69.3 ± 4.75	67.0 ± 10.17	65.4 ± .39
No. of male fetuses/dam	5.8 ± 1.14	5.3 ± 0.82	4.6 ± 1.08	4.9 ± 1.29	6.0 ± 0.74
No. of female fetuses/dam	4.9 ± 0.88	5.3 ± 1.16	5.9 ± 0.74	6.1 ± 1.45	5.2 ± 1.14

The results are summarized as mean ± standard deviation of mean

n Number of pregnant rats

^aSignificantly different from 250 mg/kg, 500 mg/kg treated and pair-fed control groups: One Way ANOVA