Table 3.
Birth outcomes of parental rats treated with of Syzygium guineense.
| Birth outcomes | Group |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Group I 250 mg/kg (n = 20) | Group II 500 mg/kg (n = 20) | Group III 1000 mg/kg (n = 18) | Group IV Control (n = 20) | ||
| No of litter/dam | Male | 3.2 ± 1.3a | 3.8 ± 1.6a | 4.7 ± 1.7 | 6 ± 1.8 |
| Female | 5.4 ± 1.9 | 4.2 ± 2.1 | 4.0 ± 1.7 | 4.6 ± 1.6 | |
| Total | 8.6 ± 1.9a | 8.0 ± 2.3a | 8.7 ± 1.9 | 10.6 ± 0.8 | |
| Live birth | 8.2 ± 1.9a | 7.9 ± 2.2a | 8.3 ± 2.2 | 10.2 ± 0.8 | |
| Stillbirth | 0.4 ± 0.8 | 0.1 ± 0.3 | 0.4 ± 0.7 | 0.4 ± 0.7 | |
| Male: Female ratio | 0.58:1 | 0.9:1 | 1.2:1 | 0.77:1 | |
Results are expressed as %, mean ± standard deviation of mean, and ratio.
a
Significantly different from control group (P-value <0.05), One-Way ANOVA; n: means number of dams.