Assessment of specific toxicity of the complex remedy "Pancreophyt"

Abstract

The experiments were carried out on white Wistar rats. The probable embryotoxic, teratogenic and fetotoxical influences of the plant remedy "Pancreophyt" at the doses of300 (1/10 DL50) and 600 mg/kg (1/5 DL50) were studied. The findings have shown that all indices of embryo lethality (the number of implantation sites, the number of alive fetus and the number of resorptions) in female white rats treated with the "Pancreophyt" do not differ significantly from the indices of the control group. The mass and craniocaudal dimensions of the fetus in the experimental group corresponded to the indices in the control group. In the second set of experiments the influence of the "Pancreophyt" (300 mg/kg) on the postnatal development of white rat offspring was studied. It was revealed that the death of infant rats was noted only on the 1st day of observation and was 4,7%; the liveweight gain and linear size of infant rats do not differ from the indices of those in the control group.

Keywords

• plant remedy “pancreophyt"
• embryotoxicity
• teratogenicity
• foetotoxicity
• the postnatal development