Table 3.
Effect of exposure to some natural insecticides on body and organs weight in experimental animals.
| Insecticide | Treatment | Dose mg/kg. b.wt. or animal/day |
Duration (days) |
Test animal | Organ | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pyrethrum | oral | 200 | 23 | rat (♂) | bodyꜛ, liverꜛ, | [52] |
| Abamectin | oral | 3.802 | 14 | mice (♂) | bodyꜜ, liverꜛ, kidneyꜛ | [57] |
| Abamectin | oral | 22.10 | 21 | rat (♀, ♂) | bodyꜜ, liverꜛ, kidneyꜛ | [60] |
| Spinosad | oral | 350 | 28 | mice (♂) | bodyꜜ, kidneyꜛ, spleen,ꜛ | [68] |
| Spinosad | oral | 10, 50, 200 | 21 | rat (♀, ♂) | bodyꜛ | [69] |
| 2.5, 10, 50 | 28 | rabbits (♀) | bodyꜛ | |||
| Bt | fed | 300, 30 | 30 | rat (♂) | body, liver, kidney | [78] |
| Phosphine | inhalation | 3 g of phostoxin tablet (1.5 hrs/day) | 7 | rat (♂) | bodyꜛ, kidneyꜛ | [72] |
| Phosphine | inhalation | 0.5, 1.5 and 4.5 mg/m3 (6hrs/day) | 13 (weeks) | rat (♀, ♂) | bodyꜜ | [55] |
| Azadirachtin | oral | 500, 1000, 1500 | 90 | rat (♀, ♂) | body, liver, kidney, testis, spleen, heart, lung | [75] |
| Bt | oral, dermal | 3,4,5 ml | 1 | rat (♀,♂), rabbit (♀,♂) | body, liver, kidney | [77] |
| Azadirachtin | fed | 5, 25, 50 | 70 | rat (♀, ♂) | body, liver, kidney, brain | [76] |
Male (♂), female (♀), increase “ꜛ”, decrease “ꜜ”, and no change “without symbol”. Bt: Bacillus thuringiensis.