Acute and Repeated Dose 28-Day Oral Toxicity Study of the Aqueous Extracts from the Leafy Stem and Fruit of Pedalium murex D.Royen EX.L in Wistar Rats

Table 1

Body weight gain and food intake of rats treated with the aqueous extracts of P. murex leafy stem (LS) and fruit (FR).

	Control	LS5000	FR5000
Initial body weight (g)	192.83 ± 7.97	201.17 ± 7.15	206.67 ± 6.85
Week 1 (g)	212.33 ± 4.33	220 ± 4.80	227 ± 4.27
Week 2 (g)	217 ± 3.46	223.5 ± 4.19	233.33 ± 2.32
Body weight gain (%)	11.20 ± 2.28	10.04 ± 1.72	11.47 ± 2.09
Food intake (g/day)	54.18 ± 1.43	66.82 ± 1.55	64.86 ± 1.58

Values are expressed as the mean ± SEM. value was considered significant using Kruskal–Wallis test followed by Dunn’s multiple comparison test. Asterisk denotes difference compared with the control group.