. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jul 2.

Published in final edited form as: Pharmacol Biochem Behav. 2008 Feb 8;89(4):508–514. doi: 10.1016/j.pbb.2008.02.004

Table 2.

Mean (SEM) blood and tissue lead concentration values for dams, littermates and test animals (Experiment 1).

Blood Lead Concentration (µg/dl)
	Group 0-mg	Group 16-mg
Dams
Breeding	2.0 (.002)	30.7 (.023) ^*
Gestation Day 10	1.6 (.004)	40.5 (.082)^*
Parturition (PND 1)	1.6 (.002)	48.7 (.054)^*
Weaning (PND 21)	.003 (.001)	24.4 (.038) ^*
Littermates
PND 1	1.7 (.004)	70.4 (.058) ^*
PND 21	1.1 (.004)	14.6 (.019) ^*
Test Animals
Termination	< .5	< .5
Tissue Concentrations of Dams at Weaning (µg/g)

	Group Lead-0	Group Lead-16
Brain	.016 (.001)	.386 (.051) ^*
Kidney	.021 (.006)	8.11 (.90) ^*
Liver	.130 (.001)	.504 (.09) ^*
Tibia	.012 (.034)	97.22 (7.57) ^*

The symbol indicates that control and lead-exposed animals were significantly different (p<.05).