TABLE 1.
Pregnancy Outcome
| Parameters | C |
C+D |
MZ |
MZ+D |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sample size (n) | 9 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
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| Mean | SE | Mean | SE | Mean | SE | Mean | SE | |
| Body wt gain (g) | 159 | 4 | 135** | 4 | 157 | 8 | 138** | 6 |
| Food intake (g) | 465 | 17 | 471 | 40 | 494 | 17 | 480 | 23 |
| Litter fetal wt (mg) | 2312 | 34 | 2294 | 55 | 2387 | 59 | 2301 | 63 |
| Litter placenta wt (mg) | 471 | 20 | 447.6 | 8.1 | 457.3 | 11.7 | 486.4 | 13.2 |
| Gravid uterine wt (g) | 69 | 2.5 | 57* | 3.7 | 69 | 3.0 | 65 | 2.4 |
| # of fetus/litter | 15.8 | 0.7 | 13.7 | 0.9 | 14.9 | 0.8 | 14.4 | 1 |
| Gravid uterine wt/# of fetus (g) | 4.3 | 0.1 | 4.4 | 0.1 | 4.7 | 0.1 | 4.7 | 0.4 |
| Fetal brain wt (mg) | 93.4 | 2.5 | 88.7 | 1.4 | 92.9 | 0.9 | 91.7 | 2.2 |
| Fetal brain wt/body wt | 0.04 | 0.001 | 0.039 | 0.001 | 0.04 | 0.001 | 0.04 | 0.001 |
| Plasma Zn (uM) | 14.17 | 0.79 | 14.59 | 1.02 | 6.22** | 0.47 | 6.32** | 0.51 |
Rat dams were fed control (25 µg zinc/g) (C) or marginal zinc (10 µg zinc/g) (MZ) diets without or with 300 mg/kg DEHP (C + D and MZ + D), from GD0 until GD19. Table shows data collected at GD19. Results are shown as means ± S.E.M analyzed by 2-way ANOVA with Fisher’s LSD (*p < 0.05 **p < 0.01 relative to control). Wt: weight, #: number.