Toxic Effect of Khat in Rat Embryos and Fetuses

Table 1

Pregnancy outcomes of day 12 khat experiment.

Treatment group	Maternal weight gain per litter (g)	Implantation sites per litter	Resorptions per litter
Group I (control)
Group II (K250)	^a		0
Group III (K500)	^a
Group IV (K750)	^a	^b	^a
Group V (ad libitum control)			0

K250: khat extract 250 mg/kg; K500: khat extract 500 mg/kg; K750: khat extract 250 mg/kg; : number of pregnant rats; results are summarized as ; ^asignificantly different () from the ad libitum group and pair-fed control group at all doses of treatment; ^bsignificantly different () from the ad libitum control group; one-way ANOVA.