Clinical Phytoscience

International Journal of Phytomedicine and Phytotherapy

Table 1 Weight profile for the male Wistar rats in M.africana acute toxicity testing

From: Acute toxicity studies of Myrsine africana aqueous seed extract in male Wistar rats on some hematological and biochemical parameters

Time	Control	1000 mg	5000 mg
Initial weight	217.4 ± 9.4	222.4 ± 5.8	224.9 ± 5.6
At 48 h	219.2 ± 8.9	219.1 ± 8.0	222.7 ± 7.0
7 days	226.9 ± 8.7	226.9 ± 7.6	232.9 ± 6.6
14 days	239.2 ± 8.6	243.2 ± 10.4	246.6 ± 10.5
Total gain	22.0 ± 1.5	20.8 ± 5.4	21.7 ± 7.5
% weight gain	8.5	7.9	8.2

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