TABLE 1.

Effect of genistein exposure form GD0 to PND42 on terminal body weight and organ weights in B6C3F1 mice¹

				Spleen Weight		Thymus Weight
Genistein (μg/g)		n2	Body Weight (g)	mg	g/100 g body	mg	g/100 g body
First litter
F1M	Control	8	18.0 ± 0.3	72.9 ± 2.2	0.41 ± 0.01	69.4 ± 3.3	0.39 ± 0.02
	25	8	16.1 ± 0.5*	69.3 ± 2.6	0.43 ± 0.02	72.0 ± 3.4	0.45 ± 0.02
	250	7	14.9 ± 0.7*	77.1 ± 4.7	0.53 ± 0.04*	73.1 ± 1.5	0.50 ± 0.03*
	1250	8	13.7 ± 0.7**	67.5 ± 3.6	0.50 ± 0.02*	77.3 ± 4.1	0.58 ± 0.04**
F1F	Control	8	15.3 ± 0.4	67.6 ± 1.9	0.44 ± 0.01	83.1 ± 3.3	0.54 ± 0.02
	25	6	13.8 ± 0.4*	68.8 ± 3.2	0.53 ± 0.04*	80.5 ± 2.4	0.60 ± 0.03
	250	8	13.9 ± 0.8	67.3 ± 4.6	0.51 ± 0.06	84.3 ± 4.4	0.63 ± 0.06
	1250	8	12.5 ± 0.4*	65.4 ± 2.5	0.53 ± 0.03*	74.4 ± 4.3	0.60 ± 0.04
Second litter
F1M	Control	5	15.9 ± 0.4	71.4 ± 6.0	0.45 ± 0.03	57.6 ± 5.4	0.36 ± 0.03
	500	5	15.8 ± 0.5	67.4 ± 4.0	0.43 ± 0.03	63.8 ± 4.1	0.41 ± 0.04
F1F	Control	5	14.2 ± 0.3	64.4 ± 2.6	0.45 ± 0.02	85.4 ± 1.8	0.60 ± 0.02
	500	5	14.0 ± 0.2	64.8 ± 4.1	0.46 ± 0.03	75.2 ± 8.3	0.54 ± 0.06

¹Values represent the means ± SE. F₁M = F₁ males, F₁F = F₁ females. Asterisks indicate a difference from the control:

^*p ≤ 0.05,

^**p ≤ 0.01.

²n = the number of mice in each group.