Table 3.
Lactating mammary gland development in dams at LD 28.
| N. of casea | Treatmentb |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OIL | DEP | MPB | TRC | MIX | ||
| Rat 1 | left | 2.5 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
| right | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2.5 | |
| Rat 2 | left | 3 | 2 | 2.5 | 1 | 1.5 |
| right | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |
| Rat 3 | left | 2.5 | 2 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 1.5 |
| right | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1.5 | 1.5 | |
| Total score | 17 | 14 | 13 | 9 | 11 | |
a
Mammary glands of three cases per each type of treatment were examined for morphological lobular development based on HE stained sections (axillary) and WM preparations (inguinal)
b
Lobular development was classified in different grades: from 3 = complete to 1 = poor development. The total score for each group of treatment was based on the sum of values assigned to each gland.