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Teratogenicity of peristrophe roxburghiana in rats

HUANG Chao-pei,FU Wei-zhong,WANG Yan-wu,HE Li,ZHANG Jie-hong,PENG Liang   

  1. Guangxi Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Nanning 530028, Guangxi, China
  • Received:2013-06-05 Revised:2013-12-10 Online:2014-05-30 Published:2014-05-30

Abstract:

OBJECTIVE: To determine the teratogenic effects of peristrophe roxburghiana (Schult.) brem in rats. METHODS:Pregnant rats were divided into 5 groups,each with 12 rats. Three groups were treated orally with exract from peristrophe roxburghiana for 10 days from 6th to 15th day of pregnancy with doses of 10.0,5.0,2.5 g/kg. The other two groups were fed orally with deionized water as negative control and aspirin with 0.3 g/kg as positive control. At 20th day,the rats were sacrificed to allow physical examination of the fetuses. RESULTS:In all treated groups the body weight of parental rats, litter weight, live rate, fetus body weight and fetus length were not significantly different from negative control group (P>0.05),and no abnormality of organ or external was found in the fetuses. CONCLUSION:In these experimental conditions,peristrophe roxburghiana had no appearance maternal toxicity,embryo toxicity nor teratogenicity in rats.

Key words: peristrophe roxburghiana, rat, embryo toxicity, teratogenicity