Table 4.
Gestation survival index and postnatal death of litters treated with Syzygium guineense.
| Reproductive indices | Group |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Group I 250 mg/kg | Group II 500 mg/kg | Group III 1000 mg/kg | Group IV Control | ||
| Gestation survival index % | 95.8 | 98.8 | 96.2 | 96.5 | |
| No of postnatal death | PND 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| PND 4 | 0.33 ± 0.5 | 0.6 ± 1.6 | 1.4 ± 2.1 | 0.63 ± 1.4 | |
| PND 7 | 0.0 | 0.3 ± 0.7 | 0.1 ± 0.3 | 0.1 ± 0.4 | |
| PND 14 | 0.0 | 0.9 ± 1.4 | 0.0 | 0.1 ± 0.4 | |
| PND 21 | 0.0 | 0.3 ± 0.7 | 0.1 ± 0.3 | 0.0 | |
Results are expressed as mean ± standard deviation of mean and percentages, One-Way ANOVA and Chi square.