Toxic Effect of Khat in Rat Embryos and Fetuses

Table 5

Pregnancy outcomes of day 20 khat experiment.

Pregnancy outcomes		Group (/group)
		Group I (control)	Group II (K250)	Group III (K500)	Group IV (K750)	Group V (Ad libitum control)
Maternal weight gain	Day 6-12		^a	^a	^a
	Day 13-20			^b	^b
No. of fetuses		49.0	49.0	46.0	33.0^b	49.0
Implantation sites/dam					^b
Number of live fetus/litter					^b
Number of resorptions/litter
Number of dead fetus/litter		0	0	0		0

Results are summarized as ; ^asignificantly different () from ad libitum and pair-fed control groups, at all doses of khat; ^bsignificantly different () from ad libitum and pair-fed control groups, one-way ANOVA. : number of pregnant rats.